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
Cheap water-closets do not save money—they get out of order too easily.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
Everything works like a clock that is never allowed to run down or get out of order.
From Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
They run out of coal, or get out of order, or something else happens.
From Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman
