Sentence examples for polygraph machine from inspiring English sources

A polygraph machine records the brain waves.

He was hooked up to another polygraph machine.

AT 20 years old, strapped to a polygraph machine, I quietly confessed that "I might be, um... homosexual".

They argue that a well-trained observer can detect deception without wiring the subject to a polygraph machine.

The specialist arrived from Houston the following day, lugging a digital polygraph machine that was hooked up to a laptop computer.

But in the real world, two of the most respected tools of the crime-busting trade -- the polygraph machine and fingerprints -- are now being seriously questioned.

Law enforcement officials have used polygraph machines since 1921.

That is the grisly question raised by the case of Steven Staley, a convicted murderer who believes polygraph machines are controlling and torturing him.

"You can sort of hear the polygraph machines warming up," quipped Steven Aftergood, who's been tracking leak probes for two decades for the Federation of American Scientists.

He starred in a lame television series called 'Truth," Mr. Feldstein writes, in which he "grilled disreputable characters hooked up to polygraph machines to see whether they were lying".

"Backster felt like running into the street and shouting to the world, 'Plants can think!' " Backster and his collaborators went on to hook up polygraph machines to dozens of plants, including lettuces, onions, oranges, and bananas.