How to Use simple machine in a Sentence

simple machine

noun
  • That’s overkill for this simple machine.
    — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Wedges are a very effective, simple machine that can clean up in robot combat.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Krups coffee grinders Krups coffee grinders are simple machines that are easy to use and small enough to keep on the counter.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • By modern standards, the Miura is a simple machine, and also an odd one in some ways.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The DeLonghi is a dead-simple machine and one of the best priced when it's not discounted.
    — Medea Giordan, Wired, 4 July 2021
  • Students will learn how to build a simple machine and their connections to 19th-century mill life.
    — Mary Sullivan, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2021
  • The antithesis to the complicated and the high-tech, such simple machines represent the best of what driving can be.
    — Charlie Thomas, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Since this is a relatively simple machine, there’s just one button to press to reach a satisfactory blend for any of your smoothies or shakes.
    — Melanie Rud, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In its paper, the team showed that a simple machine learning model would not have identified the supernova as rare based on its brightness alone.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Nowadays, arcades are paying almost double that for simple machines, Malone said.
    — Irving Mejia-Hilario, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This simple machine impressed our experts with its easy to follow controls featuring an accessible back stitch.
    — Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Muruganantham then devoted the next 20 years of his life to inventing a simple machine to make low cost sanitary pads.
    — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The inclusion of automatic shutoff was a welcome addition to this simple machine and the iron was still able to hold a large amount of water despite its petite size.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Enlarge / The McDonald's ice cream machine is a relatively simple machine.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Compared to some of the multi-cylinder competition, the Meteor 350 one-lunger appears to be a simple machine, but looks are deceiving in this case.
    — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • But home-brewers have evolved from simple machines into high-tech appliances, some employing LCD screens, automatic milk frothers or even nitrous-oxide cartridges.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2010
  • These robots, far from being simple machines, are powered by sophisticated AI systems that enable them to navigate complex warehouse environments and work alongside human employees seamlessly.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Then, move to some primitive A/B testing, create an experimentation framework and develop simple machine learning (ML) algorithms to get rough estimates of how your system will perform.
    — Dennis Turpitka, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The show is described as covering topics including safety, pressure and force, simple machines, velocity, application of science to everyday life, multiple experimentation and exothermic, external and chemical formula chemical reactions.
    — Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2024

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