hydraulic

Example Sentences

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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

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

The scientists interpret this subsidence as evidence of a previously unknown hydraulic connection between Santorini and the nearby Kolumbo volcano.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

The 41-year-old hydraulic technician has spent hours riding her purple bicycle around this city in recent weeks, looking for hints of where Nancy Guthrie may have gone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Dazed with grief, Leo and the others carefully loaded the Athena Parthenos into the hold, using the ship’s hydraulic winches with an assist from Frank Zhang, part-time elephant.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan