Sentence examples for device for making from inspiring English sources

The Ptolemaic system was intended as a device for making calculations, not as a picture of the universe.

This movie is just a shiny, sparkly device for making money; it's like watching a slot machine.

In a sense, the Farnsworth House has become less a device for living and more a device for making people think about the ways we choose to live.

Green recalled having debated the conservative labor economist Lawrence Mead and denouncing the idea of workfare as a device for making the poor "dance for their supper".

Classification is precisely the appeal to such principles; it is a device for making the otherwise unmanageable wealth of religious phenomena intelligible and orderly.

Technologies that transform a cellphone into a simple device for making payments are finding their way into the marketplace in Europe and Asia, and soon will be seen as a convenient banking tool here.

She no longer has to carry different devices for making phone calls and receiving alerts, and she can send group text messages, which makes it easier to communicate with all of her colleagues on a ward.

More than 100 years later, the use of mechanical devices for making art is no longer a big deal, as the Whitney Museum's current exhibition "Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977" (through Jan . 6, raucously illustrates.

Microsoft's Bill Gates has invested in Pacific Ethanol, a company building bio-refineries in California.California is buzzing with clean-technology projects: breakthrough energy-storage systems; devices for making electricity grids more intelligent; enzymes that chomp their way through lignin to make ethanol; algae that can be turned into fuel.

Relevant to the field of nephrology, renal tubular cells have been integrated with microfluidic devices for making kidneys-on-a-chip.

Indeed, Blue Bottle's slow-drip devices for making iced coffee are Japanese-made, and to order the resultant brew one asks for the "Kyoto".