sprocket
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What came first, the sprocket or the oil?
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Over in a dilapidated shack on the opposite side of the highway, 24-year-old Nasratullah Raihan said much the same as he watched a repairman fiddle with the rear sprocket of his bicycle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
He’s always been a gearhead, devoted to celluloid and sprocket holes, but his best movies are also sentimental as hell—big, sloppy tearjerkers wrapped inside clockwork thrillers.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2020
Ease the film onto the metal reel, where, ideally, the film’s sprocket holes will catch in tiny teeth.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2017
“Sonny built a rocket? He doesn’t even know how to put the sprocket chain back on his bike when it slips off.”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
“There’s still loops and sprockets but it is different.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
May 2: Tesla stockholders are dismayed when CEO Elon Musk announces he is changing his name to Spacely and that his company will stop manufacturing electric cars in favor of sprockets.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2021
The former stained-glass factory in Haarlem’s old town, lovingly repurposed into an art studio by Collado’s father-in-law, houses an unconventional mélange of sprockets and easels, grinders and paint brushes.
From The Verge ● Sep. 23, 2020
I feel the sprockets turn and the ratchet move up the teeth.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2018
A chain weighing twenty thousand pounds connected a sprocket on the axle to sprockets driven by twin thousand-horsepower steam engines.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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Mechanical Engineering
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