Sentence examples for machines were turned from inspiring English sources

The television screens and betting machines were turned off.

In the final months before the machines were turned off for good, Nixon was taped playing host to Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader in the cold war, in a conversation that included just one translator in the room.

Withdrawal would require unimaginable societal willpower, not least because the accumulated greenhouse gases would cause the climate to switch to a new state within months once the geoengineering machines were turned off.

In Colorado Springs in 1998, a district official sent all teachers a letter suggesting that they make sure vending machines were turned off only for the half-hour before and after breakfast, to meet the Coke-imposed sales minimum of 70,000 cases a year.

Twitter was full of reports saying that those silly machines were turned off just to expedite holiday travel.

In the factory, massive steel machines were turning the harvest into drinkable tea by the "orthodox" method.

But the machines are turned off when the terrorism threat level is raised to orange, and they can also be sidelined by hardware or network problems.

Passing through the metal detectors has become almost comical: the machines are turned up so high that a zippered jacket triggers the alarms.

Bonneville proposes to share the damages incurred by the wind producers, who not only lose the value of their production when their machines are turned off but also the federal production tax credit.

One contract between the Pepsi-Cola Company and the Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., stated that "if the Board of Education actively enforces the policy in which vending machines are turned off during the school day," the school will not get its guaranteed commission.

6. Ensure non-essential fax machines are turned "off".