cogwheel

How To Use cogwheel In A Sentence

• The big cogwheel rotated exactly once every Roman mile, and at this point a small stone - a calculus - dropped into a box.
• On the second day in Switzerland we took a scenic cogwheel up to the snowcapped Jungfrau, one of the highest peaks in the Swiss Alps. The Grace to Race
• This shaft also carries the main cogwheel which engages with a rack between the running rails on the section where the steepness of the gradient calls for its use.
• It consisted of a replica cogwheel with wire rope and was intended to symbolise the technology used in operating the sluices.
• Allen paused, and she might as well have heard the cogwheels turning.
• The machinery in it looked oddly antiquated, as if someone had taken a lot of cogwheels and pistons and piled them together.
• I found the first relatively sharp instrument I could lay my hands on - a metal cogwheel from my Meccano set, and got to work.
• Maybe I am partial to this film because of its art design - I am a sucker for big cogwheels and jazz music.
• Bradykinesia is associated with muscle weakness and fatigue; muscle rigidity of the neck, trunk, and extremities; and cogwheeling a delayed sign in which the examiner, as he flexes and extends the patient’s arm at the elbow, feels the arm move in short, stop-and-go arcs, as if periodically stopped by the gears of a wheel. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• The cogwheels in my brain started churning as I scrubbed my hands under the tap.