How to Use hydraulics in a Sentence

hydraulics

noun
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  • Cruise Night are a feast for the eyes—and that’s before the hydraulics start bouncing.
    — Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • An outdoor pool area has a pop-up movie screen on hydraulics.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • As the coaster rises, the clickety-clack turns to screams and sparks in the night when the hydraulics securing the restraints fail.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • This team will add in super-sized hydraulics, so their custom lowriders launch eight or ten feet in the air.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 14 May 2021
  • Without time to put on clothes, the lovers ran to the bathroom, and plugged in a cord: causing hydraulics to lift up an unassuming bathtub.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
  • Motion cameras, a swim bench ergometer, and a treadmill on hydraulics are just a few of the gadgets placed around the lab, ready to measure how surfers move.
    — Noah Lederman, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
  • Miles said costs can run as high as a quarter-million dollars to buy rigid pots and add hydraulics and all the peripherals needed to run the heavy gear.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2020
  • This was a major problem, which if not fixed could disable all the deck equipment run by hydraulics and force an early retreat back to port.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The roll-up-the-sleeves work ethic pairs well with the owners’ abilities to fix and build; Eric Kinsey is a hydraulics engineer.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 June 2021
  • Slab hydraulics are no match for Houston's streets' natural bounce.
    — Shelby Stewart, Chron, 6 Nov. 2020
  • As these devices — and their computers, turbines and hydraulics — must survive in some of the harshest conditions on Earth.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The hydraulics system was in serious need of maintenance.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2021
  • Twice, the plane returned on only one engine and other times had her hydraulics shot out with damage done to the stabilizer and other key systems.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The dampers and hydraulics of American political discourse absorbed the shock and kept us steadily on our path towards collapse.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Eventually, Williams ran out of ammunition, and cannon fire from a MiG took out control of his rudder and hydraulics.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2022
  • Behind her sits her mother’s sunset orange and gold 2000 Lincoln Town lowrider, riding high on its back tires equipped with custom hydraulics.
    — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Her father was a hydraulics engineer and salesman; her mother was a homemaker.
    — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • While exports to the U.S. are below the levels seen in 2019, the company has seen sales to China grow, particularly to customers in the automotive and hydraulics sectors.
    — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Instead of hydraulics in the floor that permit characters to descend into hell, the journey is made via a compartment upstage that opens and closes like a restaurant dumbwaiter.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
  • In this situation the hydraulics are effectively decoupled and the wheel motion on one side of the axle is completely independent of the other side.
    — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Manufacturers will be on hand with demonstrations; others will show how to set up boat decks and hydraulics for longliners who are interested in switching to the whale-proof pots.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020
  • One of the funny embellishments for Broadway is the appearance via hydraulics of a beloved recording artist who pops out of a glittering coffin to add her voice to those berating Usher for his insult to Perry.
    — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Redundant systems were worked into the designs of the flight controls, hydraulics, and electrical system to increase the craft’s ability to remain airborne after taking fire.
    — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2021
  • During the initial test run in January, the booster's flight computer shut down the engines about one minute into the firing after detecting low pressures in the hydraulics used by the thrust vector control steering system.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • These are just some of the marvelous inventions of the 12th-century Muslim inventor Ismail al-Jazari, who laid the groundwork for modern engineering, hydraulics, and even robotics.
    — National Geographic, 30 July 2020
  • Unfortunately, the controller is an amalgam of hydraulics and electronics that has no user-serviceable parts inside.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2021
  • At some point in the early 2000s, hip-hop beats embraced a homegrown, almost experimental aspect to them, as Timbaland and Pharrell incorporated beatboxing, hydraulics, and the sound of a baby wailing into their catalogue.
    — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2021
  • For a time, as Interpump embarked on a campaign of acquisitions to expand into the wider hydraulics sector, Montipò dedicated himself to another passion: breeding race horses.
    — Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The new facility will house the company’s primary engineering department and expand its fluid-power, hose, and hydraulics components.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Major systems such as air conditioning and flight controls once powered exclusively by mechanical hydraulics were now electrically powered.
    — Chris Sloan, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021

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