cogwheel
Example Sentences
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“I can’t tell what’s in two years. That’s why I plan year after year. I’m still happy right now. But when the cogwheels no longer work, I stop.”
From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2020
The most interesting aspect of these final years of Federer’s career has been what he is willing to do to keep those cogwheels turning.
From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2020
Evenings spent out in the yard, piecing apart the Ford his father drove – sill-lines, cogwheels, dippers fanned round him, working each burr to a touch.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010
He tacks on additional cogwheels, pinions and escape mechanisms.
From Time Magazine Archive
If either factor failed—if reproduction failed to produce variants or if heredity failed to transmit the variations—then nature would be mired in a ditch, the cogwheels of evolution jammed.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
