sprockets
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pluralof sprocket.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
sprocket
Example Sentences
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“There’s still loops and sprockets but it is different.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
Next workers attached the ten-ton chain to the sprockets and to a receiving sprocket at the wheel.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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