get out of order
Example Sentences
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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
Should the control system itself get out of order, all trains in the block would be automatically stopped.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But then they're apt to go wrong and get out of order."
From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony
Large cart wheels of the ordinary type are much more difficult to construct than small ones, besides being more liable to get out of order.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by Sutherland, George
The mechanical valve-gear does not often get out of order, but sometimes the unexpected happens.
From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Collins, Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin)
