mainspring

How To Use mainspring In A Sentence

• That this dog and White Fang should come together was inevitable, and for a week the anticipated fight was the mainspring of conversation in certain quarters of the town. Reign of Hate
• This tool is designed for the Vee type mainsprings, but can also be used on the newer coil type mainspring Miroku's.
• The teacher who can break a mainspring first and keep it from getting mended, is often the most esteemed in the community. The Lost Art of Reading
• Some repair shops are using mainsprings that are too strong for your clock.
• We also inventory turntables, gears, mainsprings, belts, needles and many many other hard to find components.
• Envy and greed were the mainsprings of their creativity; it would have been more accurate if some of them had been called the Envious Young Men.
• Instead of personal gain-seeking being viewed as the mainspring of progress, it was perceived to sow the seeds for economic polarization, and hence social discord and decay.
• Both mainsprings are so long that winding them conventionally via the crown would be unfeasible.
• The mainspring, and other parts do need to be checked and cleaned a little further.
• In the foot there is a gelatinous spring or style, which, even when taken out, has great elasticity, and which seems the mainspring of the motions of the _Pholas dactylus_. ' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852