How to Use simple machine in a Sentence

simple machine

noun
  • The DeLonghi is a dead-simple machine and one of the best priced when it's not discounted.
    Medea Giordan, Wired, 4 July 2021
  • Viewed through a modern lens, this is a simple machine.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 June 2023
  • Heavily stained or smelly items might require a pre-treatment, but in general, a simple machine-wash should be enough to get the job done.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Students will learn how to build a simple machine and their connections to 19th-century mill life.
    Mary Sullivan, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2021
  • Wedges are a very effective, simple machine that can clean up in robot combat.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Compared to some of the multi-cylinder competition, the Meteor 350 one-lunger appears to be a simple machine, but looks are deceiving in this case.
    Bill Roberson, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Muruganantham then devoted the next 20 years of his life to inventing a simple machine to make low cost sanitary pads.
    Casey Quackenbush, Time, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Conceptually at least, the Falcon Heavy is a simple machine.
    The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • This simple machine impressed our experts with its easy to follow controls featuring an accessible back stitch.
    Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022
  • But home-brewers have evolved from simple machines into high-tech appliances, some employing LCD screens, automatic milk frothers or even nitrous-oxide cartridges.
    Jeremy Repanich, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2010
  • Then, move to some primitive A/B testing, create an experimentation framework and develop simple machine learning (ML) algorithms to get rough estimates of how your system will perform.
    Dennis Turpitka, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021

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