MECHANISM in a Sentence
Learn MECHANISM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
165 example sentences for MECHANISM, such as:
1. On this table he placed the mechanism.
2. The mechanic soon fixed up the machine.
3. Vibration displaced part of the mechanism.
4. Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down.
5. A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
2. The mechanic soon fixed up the machine.
3. Vibration displaced part of the mechanism.
4. Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down.
5. A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
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Meanings and Examples of MECHANISM
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mechanism
n. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
n. device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1 A special contrast, as every man was in the forest of looms where Stephen worked, to the crashing, smashing, tearing piece of mechanism at which he laboured.
2 It is really only the mechanism of the re-assumed habit.
3 Holmes had picked up the powerful air-gun from the floor, and was examining its mechanism.
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4 On this table he placed the mechanism.
5 The Time Traveller looked at us, and then at the mechanism.
6 I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me, had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy.
7 An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism.
8 Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down.
9 She was one of those creatures which seem only not to speak because the mechanism of their mouth does not allow them to.
10 Here Vronsky showed them the mechanism for ventilation on a novel system.
11 And to do this, just as it was necessary to cook dinner, it was necessary to keep the mechanism of agriculture at Pokrovskoe going so as to yield an income.
12 And all the while, like a hidden magician, Chichikov's lawyer imparted driving power to that machine which caught up a man into its mechanism before he could even look round.
13 The estate had only recently been put on to the new reformed system, and the new mechanism worked, creaking like an ungreased wheel, warping and cracking like homemade furniture of unseasoned wood.
14 The mechanism of life, the arrangement of the day so as to be in time everywhere, absorbed the greater part of his vital energy.
15 The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of wood, iron and cords.
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 The watch mechanism is extremely intricate and very difficult to repair.
2 The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.
3 She disengaged the film advance mechanism on the camera.
4 The college has established an effective student support mechanism.
5 Vibration displaced part of the mechanism.
6 A crew of assistants oiled and adjusted the release mechanism until it worked perfectly.
7 It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access.
8 These automatic cameras have a special focusing mechanism.
9 On the key issue of land rights, it called for a mechanism to study ancestral links to the land.
10 The hypersensitive response is an inducible plant defense mechanism.
11 A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
12 If you smell gas fumes or burning, take the car to your mechanic.
13 The mechanic soon fixed up the machine.
14 The mechanic made the necessary adjustments to the engine.
15 The factories no longer relied upon a mechanic to put together looms within the plant.