Sentence examples for grooming machine from inspiring English sources

They also built a motorized "automated grooming machine," attaching the tongue to a horizontal rack and dragging it at varying speeds across a chunk of fur from the same dead cat.

They attached this device to their grooming machine and raked it across faux nylon fur.

The Games were also marred by the death of the Austrian ski team's doctor, Joerg Oberhammer, on February 25 after a collision with another skier sent him crashing into a snow grooming machine at Nakiska, crushing and killing him instantly.

Peony, whom we informally call our "grooming machine," because she spends so much time grooming, solves all problems by being sweet and calm and reassuring, which may explain why I hadn't notice her status.

No state-of-the-art grooming machines prowling the piste from dark until dawn.

There was not a sound of any kind, no rumble of the snow guns, no conversation from others, no snowcats or grooming machines.

Each morning, grooming machines would cover virtually every square inch of terrain, smushing the beautiful snow into a deadly dull carpet of hardpack.

Miller's favorite snow condition is corduroy, so named for the grooved pattern left on snow by grooming machines, but he thinks the "coolest snow" is red snow, which falls in the Alps and is tinted by red desert dust from Africa.

A lot of this is sleight of hand, of course: St. Anton hasn't lost any of its black runs, only taken them off the map, marking them instead as off-piste ski routes, untouched by grooming machines, unprotected against avalanches, for the most part -- and not patrolled.

There are distinct sounds that accompany snowfall in mountain towns: Drivers scrape their windshields; snow shovelers clear the sidewalks; lifties (those who help load skiers into chairlifts) swat each chair's seat with a broom as it swings around the bullwheel, and grooming machines will roar across the mountain tonight.

Sure, Camille is getting older -- she'll be 65 in October -- and she knew someday she would have to slow down, but she figured she and her scissors and Oster grooming machines still had a few good years left before being sent to the pound.