infernal machine
Example Sentences
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Her right hand, fingers curled, rests on the infernal machine, while her left hand is open on the windowsill.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
The infernal machine will continue largely unstopped because there is a huge market for its poison.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2023
But Klein isn’t that wild and extravagant; “Resolving Hedda” is more like an engineering project, an experiment to see whether the doomed Hedda can escape Ibsen’s infernal machine.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2019
It’s also been called the Rube Goldberg effect –– where you see the world as an infernal machine.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2011
“What is wrong with this infernal machine? And now another interruption! Where is that voice coming from?”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
