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
It is very simple in its construction, compact, durable, and not liable to get out of order.
From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Vogel, Robert M.
Nor was it until he had spent half an hour in vain ringing that he discovered that the machine had taken into its wayward, wooden head to get out of order.
From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell
Among the types are simple and safe machines which do not easily get out of order.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
