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Sentence Examples Otherwise they hold on to whatever touches them, and the chain will have enough lube on it to moisten up the cogs where it contacts each one. There's always sand in the cogs somewhere, even if these days its the ionosphere, or the troposphere, where things get gritty. It's a great trait if you're an employer looking to fill your ranks with obedient cogs, not so great if you want to end crass credentialism. If the chain is too long, the derailleur will rotate inward too far and bounce the upper jockey wheel through the chain on the largest cogs. As for adjusting for cable stretch, as the cable stretches, the derailleur will move to larger cogs faster and slower to smaller cogs. John Blenkinsop invented a steam engine which had cogs on one of its wheels. If not, you may end up having to replace cogs, chain and perhaps chainrings. She got away with this, but are we to be mercilessly reduced to cogs in the wheels of medical care systems over which we have lost all control? They're not the real story or the heart of the money lubricating the cogs of this machine. They were small, shining cogs in the movie industry's machinery of distribution and self-congratulation. People bury themselves in a totalitarian cause that treats people as mere cogs, or else nasty grit, in a mighty and holy machine. The machine wouldn't run so well if all its little cogs weren't turning smoothly. I imagine it must be like a game of Mousetrap in there, all cogs and levers, ball bearings and little plastic men diving into baths. The cogs are kept in motion mostly by the energy of the sunlight captured by photosynthetic organisms. At this point the cogs in my head started to turn and I almost died trying to keep a straight face. The difference engine was envisaged as a mechanical machine, with brass cogs and moving pistons, to be powered by turning a crank or by steam. I am not very creative and prefer to be given a starting point, something to set the squeaky little cogs moving. The machine worked by having a wheel with cogs which was prevented from spinning by a pair of metal leaves which moved up and down. It took only a generation or two for assembly line workers to accept being cogs in a wheel, unable to imagine it could be any other way. A manager that treats his reports as cogs in a wheel is guaranteed to get the performance of a cog in a wheel. Show More Sentences We all saw ourselves as small cogs in a big wheel, with no control over our own lives. This calls for a variation of the regular cogged wheel, using one wheel that has the cogs on the inside. Then, if you put on the other wheel and rode it awhile, that chain would wear out some cogs on that wheel as well. Those idiot pirates who preceded me thought all Torrencia was good for was robbing their pathetic little cogs. The poor state of the roads meant a considerable amount of river and coastal traffic, mainly in barges or cogs. Basically, I was one of the cogs in the wheel who was constantly doing surface water samples and so on. A state of dehumanisation where individuals are deemed to be cogs that can be replaced other cogs. God bless you, Chevrolet, for letting us stick-shift nuts swap our own cogs, even with the bigger engine. Tiny cogs and flywheels rolled or flew into the corners of the room. Education must produce men and citizens and not mere cogs of the social machine. Although never cultists, major artists endorsed industrialisation in the 1920s, and endeavoured to make men glad cogs in the gigantic industrial machine. This sort of regulation has induced stereotyped thinking in most officers, who themselves became cogs in the mechanically streamlined military machine. The spacing between nine-speed cogs is so close that the derailleur has to move very precisely under each cog or the chain will try to climb to the next one. Sometimes this is because the critics seek only dumb cogs to enter the system, and they resent critically aware students. Not that its secret is inviolable or too deeply buried, but its cogs and wheels are made up of yet other black boxes, and so on ad infinitum. The greatest obstacle to moralising public life is the absence of honest believers in the cogs of society. Community health workers like Joyce who are seemingly indefatigable are oiling the cogs of weary health systems across Africa. It is apparent that not all the cogs and wheels in the system of administration of justice are working well together. A set of paddle shifters worked flawlessly when the urge to take command of the cogs arose. A constant turnover is problematic on many levels and we have to remember that we are human beings, not cogs in an economic wheel. Show More Sentences Apparently our leaders do, viewing people as interchangeable cogs. But until digital photography lifts off, Hasselblad's magical black box of cogs and pulleys is sure to remain the favourite of the astronauts. And with a selection of eight cogs to choose from, the engine's potential is always within reach. Powered cable ferries use powered cogs or drums on board the vessel to pull itself along by the cables. In the throes of insatiable envy, they bullied their husbands into becoming effete cogs, Whyte's Organization Men. Without an API, programmers would first have to suss out how the gears and cogs inside the target platform work, and then construct software to mesh with those. We and Shakespeare are cogs in some intricate diplomatic mission. They have to produce a federal budget, draft a state-of-the-union address, turn campaign promises into real-life policy and, if they have any sense, redecorate the White House. Yet the cogs of Washington grind exceeding slow. That inescapable cycle is mirrored in the relentlessly churning wheels and giant cogs of the primitive ox-driven sugarcane mill where the Breves family toils. Since Alain Renaud was just one of the cogs in the wheel, can the Minister of Public Works tell us who within government was controlling the Liberal Party money machine that the sponsorship program represented? As Neil Sutherland, the dimmest of the four schoolboys in The Inbetweeners, he perfected a slack-jawed, dead-eyed gawp that suggests cogs creaking into place one tooth at a time. We seek to be what one might describe as the cogs in a well-oiled machine. In automatic mode, the gearbox slithers through the cogs and, should you want to be in real control, an easy tug of the shift lever to the left will enable the manual mode. A RAIL worker told yesterday how he desperately battled to save a Scots woman after she was sucked into the cogs of a moving walkway. In the dualistic universe mapped out by Descartes in the late 17th century, for example, animals were regarded as cogs in the vast machinery of nature. The pigeons have been cleared from the clock tower – where an electric motor now powers the original cogs – overlooking trees, granite benching and new lighting designed to show off the architecture by night. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich men, without bursting the boiler. He is hopefully one of the cogs in the wheel that will make us successful. During the second world war, codebreaking was the endeavour of small teams of gifted individuals, working with crude machines that hummed and whirred as cogs and wheels of varying sizes turned at different speeds. If shipowners wished to confine themselves to maritime transport, they would slowly realise that they had become mere cogs in a giant transport machine. Show More Sentences They were recognized as persons, and not as faceless cogs in a machine. Today's power flows to the wheels through the management of a six-speed automatic transmission capable of swapping cogs with transparency such that no one notices. Now, though, this outflow of human capital has become a more crucial problem in the light of our knowledge-based economy and the fact that these emigrants are the most valuable cogs in that economic machine. The guys of TAZ are cogs in this grand machine. The room is dominated by what appears to be a complex trap, packed with knives, cogs, needle bars and other sharp elements. Very quickly, cogs, pulleys, gables are enlisted in boxes. Trade routes along the Middle Passage were one of the main cogs in establishing what is known as capitalism today. In acoustics, in 1681 he showed the Royal Society that musical tones could be generated from spinning brass cogs cut with teeth in particular proportions. On the top floor are two pairs of French burr millstones, the oak windshaft on which the sails rotate, and a huge brakewheel and tailwheel with wooden cogs. Topics include preventative maintenance, flat repair, wheel bearings, cables and housing, handbrakes, chain and cogs, derailleurs, bottom brackets and wheel truing. Examples from Classical Literature With a monkey-wrench he removed the two big wheels of the lawn-mower and reversed the pawl in the cogs. Motion is conveyed to the governor balls by a belt and a band wheel working on a mechanism of metred cogs. Remove washer on the short end of shaft, also the cogwheel if the shaft has cogs on both ends. And he could conclude only that there were no warm human men at the other end, only mere cogs, well oiled and running beautifully in the machine. The cogs and wheels of the machine began to revolve rapidly. The woods most used for cogs are hickory, maple, hornbeam and locust. Figures, and wheels, and cogs, and levers, and screws, and cylinders, and a thousand things. I knew the cogs of the machinery behind the scenes so well that the posing on the stage, and the laughter and the song, could not drown the creaking of the wheels behind. Among other things, I had got into the cogs and springs of men's actions. We are all caught up in the wheels and cogs of the industrial machine. The big, toothed cogs on the rollers did not touch my fingers. Hidebound by songs that listlessly attempt to invest hipster life with some meaning or poignancy, the recurring sound is that of creativity's cogs grinding. He tested the steering device, and overlooked the mighty cogs which transmitted its marvelous velocity to the giant drill at the nose of his strange craft. Find more words! 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