get out of order
Example Sentences
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Should the control system itself get out of order, all trains in the block would be automatically stopped.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carry our discoveries to the utmost limit, man is still a machine that will get out of order, will be injured and will ultimately wear out.
From Time Magazine Archive
These valves, as a rule, frequently get out of order and leak, and care must be taken to construct the vault under the hopper so that it be perfectly water-tight.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
These last are apt to get out of order, a breath of wind may do damage, a raindrop were fatal.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon
It’s simpler, for one thing—there ain’t so many little cogs to catch and get out of order.
From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday
