sprocket

Example Sentences

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Over in a dilapidated shack on the opposite side of the highway, 24-year-old Nasratullah Raihan said much the same as he watched a repairman fiddle with the rear sprocket of his bicycle.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2021

He’s always been a gearhead, devoted to celluloid and sprocket holes, but his best movies are also sentimental as hell—big, sloppy tearjerkers wrapped inside clockwork thrillers.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

Ease the film onto the metal reel, where, ideally, the film’s sprocket holes will catch in tiny teeth.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2017

The camera took one picture at a time, the film being wound on manually by means of a sprocket wheel that engaged with the holes on the sides of the film strip.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2014

Willem leans over his bicycle; he's disabled his chain and is now pretending to fix it, working it back over the sprocket.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse