Sentence examples for instrument inoperable from inspiring English sources

In August 2004, the power system of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) failed, rendering the instrument inoperable.

"A split musical instrument seems inoperable," Mr. Klein said, "but here we see both halves making music.

Other Hubble renovations include the installation of a new cooling system on an infrared instrument that has been inoperable since 1999 because of a coolant leak, and replacement of the main power switching controller, which has been degrading after almost 12 years in space.

This instrument has been demonstrated to be a brief, valid, and feasible scale for assessing cancer-related dyspnea among inoperable NSCLC patients[ 42, 43].

Inoperable cellphones.

Inoperable, obviously.

He has inoperable cancer.

Inoperable, he said.

Trains were inoperable.

The cancers were inoperable.

The weapons were inoperable.