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

He daydreams of flying spoons and sprockets, of one-legged light bulbs and robotic birds.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2015

Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman