How to Use time machine in a Sentence

time machine

noun
  • The big sell: A time machine that gets you out of the year 2020.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Passover and the Seder are sort of like a time machine.
    Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The hosts aren’t afraid to get in a time machine either.
    Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Priest can be a time machine for a lot of our fans that takes them back to the '80s or '90s.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Take a time machine back to the '60s with this wiggy look.
    Yaa Bofah, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2021
  • Let’s fire up the ol’ Theme Park Ranger time machine and set it for 30 years ago.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • These old heads get on TV and speak from a time machine.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2020
  • On the inside, though, the IVPP is more time machine than theme park.
    National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The time machine that is Christmas though allowed the genre to come back.
    New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Click on the double arrows, and Google whisks you aboard the time machine.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2020
  • For many of its fans, crumb cake is a time machine back to childhood.
    Stacy Adimando, Saveur, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Right now the best way to find an answer is to hop back into the time machine.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Right now, the best way to find an answer is to hop back into the time machine.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Now, there is no time machine to go back in time to undo those things.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Like something that arrived here from a time machine out of the year 2006.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • The Time Machine as the first description of, well, a time machine.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2022
  • The Giants’ time machine slowed to a crawl Tuesday night.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2019
  • At their best these wines are as transportive as a time machine.
    Joseph Hernandez, Bon Appétit, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Agern's Ocean Broth is meant to be more of a palate cleanser and less of a nostalgic time machine.
    Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Hailey Bieber might as well have stepped out of a time machine from the early 2000s.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The ballpark at 24 Willie Mays Plaza feels a bit like a time machine this weekend.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Head down to Washington Square Park to enter a time machine to the 1950s!
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Nothing could convince me to take a time machine back to high school.
    Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
  • As the wreck dates back to about 425 B.C., diving to it is like traveling in a time machine.
    Travel, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Nicole Franzen Use your guest bedroom as a time machine!
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 21 July 2022
  • And that’s what this is: a time machine that takes the listener and reader into the past.
    Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Then the Men in Black displayed an iPod for Pepper's time machine clue.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • To find out, Namouni and Morais built a virtual time machine.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 May 2018
  • As to the certification of the prior election results, there is no time machine to turn back those events.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Inside is a four-poster bed with a floral headboard all surrounded by walls painted a soothing pale blue—like if Daphne Bridgerton took a time machine to the 2020s and decided to redecorate.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 27 June 2024

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