"machinery" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Behind the guards came a horde of palace servants, as silent and efficient as well-oiled machinery, scooping up the fallen baggage and leading off the pack animals.
- His orders went to chaps like Wally; and the well-oiled machinery moved.
- Everything was clicking like well-oiled machinery.
- Hers was a cold, controlled presence, her thoughts as precise and unemotional as well-oiled machinery.
- The show had been on the road for nearly two weeks now, and every department was working like a piece of well-oiled machinery.
- Mr. Cole's quintet, which featured himself on piano and Gerry Byrd on guitar, played with a seamless coordination that suggested the meshing of well-oiled machinery.
- With a soft whine of well-oiled machinery, a panel slid back to reveal a well-equipped laboratory.
- This time his muscles responded like smooth well-oiled machinery, flexing and taking the strain of the heavy weight.
- A well-oiled machinery for the creation and diffusion of fads is now an entrenched part of the modern economy.
- For a large part of the 20th century this well-oiled denominational machinery imposed a remarkable uniformity on what was, in principle, a highly decentralized collection of churches.
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