MAINSPRING in a Sentence
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Example sentences for MAINSPRING, such as:
1. Everybody's mainspring is different.
2. HEEP, and only HEEP, is the mainspring of that machine.
3. The mainspring in a mechanical watch is the spring that stores energy of winding to operate the watch.
2. HEEP, and only HEEP, is the mainspring of that machine.
3. The mainspring in a mechanical watch is the spring that stores energy of winding to operate the watch.
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Meanings and Examples of MAINSPRING
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mainspring
n. the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism
Classic Sentence:
1 HEEP, and only HEEP, is the mainspring of that machine.
2 Our difference of opinion amounts to this, that you make the mainspring self-interest, while I suppose that interest in the common weal is bound to exist in every man of a certain degree of advancement.
3 The mainspring of his existence was taken away when she died and with it had gone his bounding assurance, his impudence and his restless vitality.
4 Everybody's mainspring is different.
5 "Who, I believe, is the mainspring of all this, I confess," said the cardinal.
Example Sentence:
1 The mainspring in a mechanical watch is the spring that stores energy of winding to operate the watch.