Example Sentences

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Customers in Uganda want more tools and equipment, including lathes and water pumps.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2024

The workrooms contained metal lathes, hand tools and grey casings, but it was not possible to verify what had been made there.

From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2023

“It was full of joiners and had the best tools and lathes to do anything he needed or wanted to do.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023

But she could not stop thinking about glass engraving so went to the back door of the Edinburgh College of Art, which had rejected her, to beg to use their lathes.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2023

When the lathes withdrew for coffee, Dame Hannah said, “Tell me, Lyra—are they going to send you to school?”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman