Sentence examples for machine was able from inspiring English sources

A stage wagon of 1771, whose owner called it "The Flying Machine," was able to travel the 90-odd miles between Philadelphia and New York City in a day and a half.

On first viewing, I thought that Anderson never persuasively showed how Quell, while a cog in Dodd's machine, was able to put his erotomania aside and remain chaste; on the second viewing, it made perfect sense.

Most evaluation models, he observes, were based on rising house prices and used "the foreshortened, statistically meaningless past to predict the future"; this was how "the entire food chain of intermediaries in the subprime mortgage machine" was able to dupe itself.

mAIS: The number of benign apps our committee machine was able to unsuccessfully classify.

mAIS: the number of malicious apps our committee machine was able to successfully classify.

The machine was able to do this thanks to accelerometers built into its segments, which detected when it hit the tree's bark.

The machines, he says, are our new race of slaves: a tempting metaphor, but a misleading, one, since there is a vast range of jobs – roughly speaking, any job needing great flexibility – that no machine is able to do.

At the rate this armoured wrecking machine is able to plough through the city, there won't be much left of the Dark Knight's hometown by closing credits.

I enjoy not having to feel like a tiny cog in a huge machine, being able to wear every single hat in the business and of course making history on Savile Row.

After all, if a human can do it, why shouldn't a machine be able to?

In fact, when one or more phases are opened, the machine is able to rotate with a torque reduction.