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

Catching diseases.—Our body may get out of order like a machine.

From Applied Physiology Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics by Overton, Frank

"You're lucky if the tank don't burst, or the windmill get out of order, or anything happen that will be really worth worrying over."

From The Dorrance Domain by Wells, Carolyn