Example Sentences

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May 2: Tesla stockholders are dismayed when CEO Elon Musk announces he is changing his name to Spacely and that his company will stop manufacturing electric cars in favor of sprockets.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2021

The former stained-glass factory in Haarlem’s old town, lovingly repurposed into an art studio by Collado’s father-in-law, houses an unconventional mélange of sprockets and easels, grinders and paint brushes.

From The Verge • Sep. 23, 2020

I feel the sprockets turn and the ratchet move up the teeth.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2018

"They love the manual projectors and the sprockets," Lebrun says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2014

Hidden films clocked through well-oiled sprockets, and the walls lived.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury