Example Sentences

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Another, called a McKibben actuator, is pneumatically driven and requires an air compressor to actuate.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023

At Best Buy Theater on Tuesday, “I Bet” came near the end of Ciara’s show, after more than an hour devoted largely to pneumatically intense dancing and the songs that inspire it.

From New York Times • May 6, 2015

The “hand down” protocol, put into practice in 1935, allowed journalists sitting in the courtroom when decisions were announced to dispatch copies of those opinions, pneumatically, to their colleagues downstairs in the pressroom.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2015

It runs pneumatically and on electric and these are all wearing out.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2013

Pneumatic Explanation of Nature.5—Metaphysic reads the message of nature as if it were written purely pneumatically, as the church and its learned ones formerly did where the bible was concerned.

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm