If people wanted that kind of perfect, mechanical thing, then let them have it.
Not one of those mechanical things; it was the wrong shape.
I was good at mechanical things and using my hands.
Like you, I have no great love for mechanical things.
They stood and walked to the house as one of the mechanical things rolled up to the front.
He'd be the first to admit that he wasn't any good at mechanical things.
If the ship had only ever been a mechanical thing, he could have taken it.
"I worked on some mechanical things and feel I've made progress."
"Because I like men who do mechanical things," she said.
Halfway up, his hands became mechanical things with a life of their own.