How to Use pneumatic in a Sentence

pneumatic

adjective

• Health workers used phones, fax machines and pneumatic tubes to send messages across departments or outside the facility.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
• Each has distinct pros and cons: pneumatic systems are springy and thus less vulnerable to shock damage; hydraulic ones offer more precision and power.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 19 June 2024
• For decades, Social Security has used obsolete jobs like pneumatic tube operator and nut sorter to deny disabled claimants.
  — Lisa Rein, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
• The pneumatic hiss and click of the plunger sounded like a door closing.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
• One thing the repairs will not cover is the pneumatic gate at the front of the canoe chute.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• New York wasn’t the first city to embrace pneumatic mail.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• Then the pneumatic system lowers both the seat and lid.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
• There were no trap doors or pneumatic lifts at the Circle Star.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
• To speed things up, a pneumatic tube was run from the Western Union’s building to the Board of Trade’s building.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
• The truck had a pneumatic lift for a dumpster that was raised, which was ripped off, police said.
  — Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
• There will be a pneumatic tube called the Burger Launcher to shoot short orders up to the tap room of the brewery.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• The Gila’s head moves like a pneumatic hammer, up and down, up and down, drilling into flesh and bone with the force of 1,000 G’s.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
• The Gila’s head moves like a pneumatic hammer, up and down, up and down, drilling into flesh and bone with the force of 1,000 G’s.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
• Fasten the rim to the top of the box with 2½-inch pneumatic nails or 8d galvanized finish nails [5].
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2021
• The release part is easy enough, the design allows the aircraft to launch from a pneumatic rail.
  — Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
• This dump cart comes in four bright colors, and it’s mounted on 10-inch pneumatic tires.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
• The 13-inch pneumatic wheels are 4 inches thick and tough enough to make it over a variety of terrain.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
• In many airliners, the APU air is used to turn the pneumatic starter for the engines, which needs to be run weekly themselves.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2020
• Boosters have been heralding the dawn of a new age of pneumatic trash collection for decades.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2020
• Tack-nail each part using a pneumatic pin nailer or a hammer in a few brads.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2019
• First position the bottom over the two ends and fasten it with the pneumatic nailer.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
• Two workers fed the orbs into a pneumatic press that smushed them into flat discs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2021
• The exam rooms feature pneumatic chairs rather than the benches that patients now must hop up on.
  — Cathie Anderson, sacbee, 3 June 2018
• Wertz loves New York down to its guts: the pneumatic tubes that stretch the length of the island and were once used to send gusts of letters from one post office to another.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• Two more workers fastened the panels to steel beams with pneumatic guns.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• The eight-inch pneumatic tires soften the ride, and two 12-volt batteries provide power for up to 6.5 miles.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2023
• The two seats up front as well as two in the rear feature electric motors with pneumatic systems to fine tune comfort.
  — Terry Troy, cleveland.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• The tool the thieves wielded — a pneumatic Jaws of Life used by rescue services to free people trapped in car wrecks — is not available on the open market.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• Riding along, and up and down, rickety roads, his body will rattle as if riding on a pneumatic drill.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 18 July 2017
• After harvesting, which is done at night, the grapes are placed into a pneumatic press.
  — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024