Sentence examples for be a cog from inspiring English sources
Don't want to be a cog in a machine?
Can you be a cog in the system and a spanner in the works?
A few moments later, Mr. Greenspon pointed to an odd-looking item that at first glance appeared to be a cog from a piece of machinery.
"Where we have gotten push-back is they see us as shuttling students to be a cog in a wheel," said Erica Swinney, Mr. Swinney's daughter and the director of career and community programs at Austin Polytech.
"I didn't want to be a cog in a big machine," said Mr. Bricklin, a bearded 51-year-old who was wearing blue jeans, a flannel shirt and running shoes.
But rarely do we get to see the human face behind their mettle, let alone the toll it takes on the psyche to be a cog in the machine of a system they know to be unjust.
You're a cog in the machine.
He was a cog in the machinery, not a crusader.
In film, you're a cog in this big wheel.
He was a cog outside of the machine.
