How to Use machine tool in a Sentence

machine tool

noun
  • Diplomats and their underlings have brokered deals for weapons and drugs, and more mundane products like machine tools and cows.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
  • But its main dependencies will be components and also machine tools.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Barnes builds filters for machine tools used to manufacture engines and transmissions.
    — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • That made Swiss products from watches to machine tools and ski vacations a lot more expensive in other countries.
    — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • When Loren Voss of Fond du Lac was making a living as a machine tool serviceman, his work took him all over the world.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2018
  • By 1906, hundreds of machine tool shops around the nation made automobiles and needed rubber hoses and tires.
    — Ted Evanoff, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Rare earths’ imports drop China’s imports of rare earths, meat, cosmetics products and machine tools fell sharply in the first half of the year, customs data showed.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 July 2024
  • Labor and machine tools remain major constraints because of Western sanctions and export controls.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2024
  • In Southeast Asia, that trade was buoyed by leaps in the export of machine tools, automobile parts and computer components.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Overall, Asian countries accounted for more than 50% of global machine tool production.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • China’s exports of those machine tools more than doubled last year, according to trade data collated by the United Nations.
    — Pei-Lin Wu, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • The robotics probe includes machine tools for cutting, welding and handling workpieces, autoclaves and industrial ovens.
    — Reuters 12 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, data on retail sales, exports, industrial production, machine tool order and other sectors suggest a loss of momentum.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The retail operation provides industrial customers direct access to purchase, rent and service tools like cylinders and jacks, pumps and bolting and machine tools.
    — From News Reports, Houston Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2019
  • In the two-plus years since, China has refused to condemn the invasion and helped Russia acquire materiel, from machine tools to engines to drones, crucial for the war effort.
    — Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024
  • It was made by a seller who uses a machine tool at an old General Electric factory in Indiana and cuts wood to turn it into furniture.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • China has provided dual-use goods, from machine tools to microchips, that are highly coveted by Russian arms manufacturers.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The biggest consumer is the auto industry, with about 25 percent of supply predominately used in cutting and machining tools.
    — Thomas Biesheuvel, Bloomberg.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • High school students will learn to build a fully functional rocket launch controller using CNC machine tools, and launch a rocket to high altitude during the camp.
    — Staff Report, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
  • Hang Time has placed men in jobs including janitorial services, car washes, solar installation, roofing, machine tool and die, driving trucks and more.
    — Alix Boyle, courant.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The Connecticut River Valley then became a node of machine tool manufacturing.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Other sectors added to the list on Friday include those that manufacture machine tool components such as ball screws, and companies that manufacture marine engines.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune Asia, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Yet inside an aging production hall, new digital machine tools that resemble science-fiction space pods are churning out components for Abrams tanks, a weapon pledged for fighting in Ukraine.
    — Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Above all, this means reducing the flow to Russia of Western components, technology, and machine tools that are critical to keeping its economy on a war-footing.
    — TIME, 21 Feb. 2024
  • At a vocational school of Montmagny, 50 miles northeast of Quebec City, students learn to program machine tools or to master welding.
    — Frederic Tomesco, Bloomberg.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The Department of Defense depends on foreign governments, including China, for large cast and forged products, which are used in some defense systems and machine tools.
    — Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The Swarovski family, which also owns both a luxury crystal company and one that specializes in precision machine tools, has all the infrastructure in place to make high-quality glass.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Chinese firms have quickly gained ground against their European and Japanese counterparts in the production of advanced machine tools such as robotic arms, hydraulic pumps, and other equipment.
    — Dan Wang, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Excluding those categories, engines, communications equipment, machine tools and a variety of metals, increased.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Companies will have the opportunity to raise concerns and to note if goods crucial to business—highly specialized machine tools, for example—have been targeted, or if different goods should be included in the tariff list.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018

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