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 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
Of course, mechanisms get out of order too.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
Thus everything is quite self-contained and so simple that there is little to get out of order.
From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.
