How to Use cog in a Sentence

cog

noun

• Align the drive splines inside the wheel with the drive cog and press the wheel into place.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• But Green is still a vital cog, still the heartbeat of the team.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
• Wall is fighting to be a key cog in the wide receivers room.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
• Ekeler has been a key cog in the passing game and is a reliable threat in the red zone.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
• Long-press Internet to open the menu, and then tap the cog icon next to the WiFi network you’re connected to.
  — Whitson Gordon, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
• Still, there was a reason Lux was expected to be a key cog.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• But for the entire team to produce at this pace, the Dodgers have needed other cogs to click as well.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• That seems unlikely, given the careers and big games the key cogs have logged.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
• Bob Rosier was the main cog in Tommies’ pound-it-inside attack.
  — Patrick Reusse, Star Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
• But Hill has carved out an essential, varied role for the Ravens and, in turn, he’s been a key cog in the machine.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
• With Turner’s Fruit-Press, the fruit is first pushed through an opening and from there, pulled into a cog where the piece is cut in half.
  — Dorkys Ramos, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2023
• To edit what this widget shows, tap and hold on it on the home screen, then choose Customize, and tap the cog icon next to At a Glance.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 21 Sep. 2023
• Cassian is but a single cog in the enormous machine that is the galaxy far, far away.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
• For a team that won many weeks by simply winning shootouts, Allgeier was the cog that drove BYU to a 10-win season.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
• Bentley has been a key cog on the offensive line playing in 52 games and will now have to be replaced.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2022
• The original design employed a cog belt to drive the exhaust cam, which in turn drove the intake cam via a set of gears.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
• Like Amazon, Sears was a crucial cog in the American wheel, a giant of its time.
  — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
• After languishing in Detroit for a dozen years, he's been a main cog in the Rams getting this far.
  — Barry Wilner, ajc, 12 Feb. 2022
• Nika Mühl has been the key cog in that defensive effort.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 26 Nov. 2022
• Alas, some of the old problems were back too—like whether Gaines was an essential cog in the wheel or just a replaceable part.
  — Arsenio Orteza, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2023
• To my right, a balding man cog with blue Vans and Ecto-Coolor shades drops to one knee, then slowly collapses to the ground.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• All the cogs in the marketing wheel should be working together.
  — Dana Nowick, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• In recent years, Vietnam has become a key cog in the global supply chain.
  — John Boudreau, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Finally, for the Outlook web client, click the cog icon (top right), then Mail, then Forwarding.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2024
• Barone, who remains high on Kmet’s potential as a much larger cog in the passing game.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• Belichick has gushed about Stevenson all season as the back entrenched himself as a key cog in the offense.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022
• Where do the world’s big cruise lines, a major cog in South Florida’s tourism industry, go from here?
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• Chief among the cogs in the machine of what could be a powerful unit, is Howell, who was named to the all-conference first team last season.
  — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
• Martino was a key cog in St. Thomas Aquinas’ defense, picking up 23 ground balls.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 19 June 2021
• WebEx, once a fast-growing startup, now was a cog in a blue-chip behemoth.
  — Ken Fowler, CNN, 23 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024