hydraulic

Example Sentences

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“It’s like a hydraulic system. It really is very much like the jacks that push your car up, or something that an excavator might have,” Drew said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

World champion Norris has been beset by reliability problems this weekend, losing much of second practice to a hydraulic failure and half of final practice with another battery failure.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Mr. Paine highlights technological breakthroughs as well, such as the feats of hydraulic engineering in China that created water routes through the country’s vast interior as early as the fifth century B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Left with no idea how to wrap itself up, “Undertone” throws every one of those horror tropes under a hydraulic press, shoving them together, hoping that the result will be prettier than just polished garbage.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

An entire wall of gears and hydraulic systems loomed beside him, the floor of the ship that had now become a wall.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi