Sentence examples for a standard device from inspiring English sources
This mystification game is a standard device of suspense literature, but nobody did it quite like Christie.
The company's partner is based in Madrid, so Mr. Addo uses a standard device to make international calls over his computer network.
His innovation of seating a choir in quartets (rather than in four separate sections) in order to secure a richer blend of sound has become a standard device.
Even now that "Black-ish" is in its fourth season, Barris wonders if he dares to introduce what on a white show would be a standard device: a black-and-white dream episode.
The 1963 thriller The Girl Who Knew Too Much had a plot that would become a standard device - a girl becomes hunted by a crazed killer after accidentally witnessing a crime.
These embedded narratives arrive effortlessly, in a page from Chekhov's playbook that has also figured in the work of Alice Munro and Raymond Carver, among others, making the story within a story a standard device of 20th-century fiction.
A labor expert not involved in the negotiations said a fact-finder is a "fairly standard device where you can't get independent arbitration but want to get a neutral view".
A similar schedule was used for measuring body temperature with a calibrated standard device.
As an open standard, device makers are largely left to decide for themselves how to implement the protocol.
Their well is the standard device, a small cylinder sunk into the earth with a hand pump above ground.
At a company called Imedia, they designed a now-standard device called a "cherry picker," a box that gathers video from satellites and antennas to send out to homes.
