Sentence examples for the mainspring from inspiring English sources
noun
The principal spring of a clockwork mechanism, that drives it by uncoiling.
The movement, called the Sistem51, is made of 51 simple parts and has a weight that winds the mainspring.
Until the time, it's on your arm, rotor keep spinning which winds the mainspring.
That offensive prank is the mainspring of the movie.
He is also the mainspring of NYCB's identity.
She must have been the mainspring of his days.
Study, the mainspring of universities, burdens looking, the playground of art.
The mainspring of the plot, in Chapter 1, establishes the antic tone.
Fidelity to her beloved father's memory and reputation was the mainspring of her life.
As VS Pritchett wrote of Ford: "Confusion was the mainspring of his art as a novelist.
Insatiable desire is the mainspring of Caroline Meeber's existence in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie," she said.
This school was an offspring of the New Theatre League — "the mainspring of the Agitprop . . .
