MECHANICAL in a Sentence

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165 example sentences for MECHANICAL, such as:
1. The mechanic soon fixed up the machine.
2. And the continuity is not Organic, but mechanical.
3. Production has been hampered by mechanical failure.
4. Of course, minor mechanical faults sometimes occur.
5. A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MECHANICAL
mechanical
 a.  using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
 a.  relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  The official was a white-faced unemotional man, who went through his duties in a dull mechanical way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
2  He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
3  Iron clamps and girders, fire-proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; everything that heart could desire.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
4  Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
5  For the rest the place seemed run by mechanical anarchy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  It was an almost mechanical confidence in her own powers, and went with a great cheerfulness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  Even an organism is bourgeois: so the ideal must be mechanical.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  We're only cerebrating make-shifts, mechanical and intellectual experiments.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sympathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  And the continuity is not Organic, but mechanical.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  'I'm afraid I know nothing at all about these mechanical things, Sir Clifford,' he said calmly.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  The next day was passed in mere mechanical deeds of preparation, both the women being anxious to immerse themselves in these to escape the emotional aspect of the situation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
13  The Upper-world people might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants: but that had long since passed away.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  So, as I see it, the Upper-world man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness, and the Under-world to mere mechanical industry.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
15  His ideas began to grow confused once more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  But in aerial combat, the possibility of mechanical failure paled beside the dangers of enemy fire.
2  The phone includes a mechanical device that can make the phone vibrate when it would ring or make a sound, such as an incoming call or an alarm.
3  They are discussing a belief that the universe is a mechanical contrivance.
4  Human physiology is the science of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of humans in good health, their organs, and the cells.
5  The mainspring in a mechanical watch is the spring that stores energy of winding to operate the watch.
6  Charles Babbage's mechanical calculating engines were the antecedents of the modern computer.
7  Of course, minor mechanical faults sometimes occur.
8  Production has been hampered by mechanical failure.
9  She was quite mechanical and unthinking in the way she ironed the shirts.
10  Despite their mechanical complexity and the need for piloting skills akin to riding a unicycle, a helicopter's idiosyncrasies can quickly be forgiven.
11  A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
12  If you smell gas fumes or burning, take the car to your mechanic.
13  The mechanic soon fixed up the machine.
14  The mechanic made the necessary adjustments to the engine.
15  The factories no longer relied upon a mechanic to put together looms within the plant.