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    Use "pneumatic" in a sentence

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    pneumatic


    1. "Now that we have the pneumatic science to build a control system for it


    2. There was a quiet clunk from the hatch and then, with a low hissing sound, it gradually swung open, two pneumatic pistons controlling its fall


    3. We work on the vehicle by dropping little pneumatic jack-legs, each of which has a solid rubber wheel on the end


    4. Then a group of pneumatic older girls, probably in their twenties, walked by, so of course we talked about the fly females that were switching and swooshing their asses around the rink that night


    5. Very different from the modern lightweight, collapsible, pneumatic tyred vehicles that the disabled can manoeuvre with such dexterity


    6. „Anyone got a stick of dynamite? A pneumatic drill?"


    7. Heavy Metal posters, centre-fold girls, knives, a black doll hung by its hair, a life-sized pneumatic woman suspended from the ceiling, gaping mouth and vagina leering derisively and… Ian averted his eyes from Lance’s jerking fist


    8. The pneumatic leg extenders were hidden by the thickness of the flight suits


    9. She scribbled a note and put it into a capsule in a pneumatic tube, which then was sucked upwards with a hiss and a rattle


    10. In front of each desk was an array of pneumatic tubes

    11. The hands on the clock ticked round to six o'clock and the floor was suddenly a bustle of noise, everyone shouting at each other and pneumatic tubes whooshing and zipping


    12. A long grenade-launching tube was positioned under the barrels block and used a pneumatic compensator to minimize recoil


    13. As soon as they were in position and ready to be dropped in place, pneumatic legs deployed from under the slabs, on which they rested


    14. The heavy recoil when firing a grenade is absorbed by a pneumatic recoil buffer situated behind the launcher


    15. crew appeared to be using pneumatic dril s to dig up the more useful parts in the


    16. When a miner punctured one of these pockets with the tip of his pneumatic hammer an explosion would occur, which would immediately kill the miner or send him reeling off into space, never to be found again


    17. For one thing, the pilot can remotely rearm the cannons in the air via pneumatic pistons, contrary to the old model, which could only be rearmed on the ground by an armorer


    18. Using a pneumatic wrench, he loosened the bolts holding the actuator assembly and


    19. He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an infirm widow of independent, if limited, means, in her convalescent bathchair with slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North Circular road opposite Mr Gavin Low's place of business where she had remained for a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems, private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from the city to the Phoenix Park and vice versa


    20. They certainly made movement faster and more efficient, and if Nahrmahn Tidewater’s proposal to manufacture pneumatic tires from Corisandian rubber worked out

    21. The clangor of old-fashioned hammers and new-model pneumatic rivet guns was deafening, but it was scarcely the only sound assaulting his ears as he stood at dockside and gazed at the mammoth ship floating against the thick fenders


    22. The machine was a beautiful silvery blue, with pneumatic tires to smooth out the bumps and ruts of Eudora’s dirt streets


    23. Disappointment followed of course, and naturally led to a neglect of the subject; and, in fact, for some years, pneumatic medicine has gone into discredit, and public opinion has vibrated to the extreme of incredulity


    24. During a late lecture in the laboratory of Yale College, a quantity of fulminating mercury, probably about 100 or 150 grains, lay upon a paper, the paper lay on a small stool, which was made of pine plank, one inch and a half thick; a glass gas receiver, 5 or 6 quarts capacity, stood over the powder, as a guard, but without touching it, and stool and all stood on one of the shelves of the pneumatic cistern, surrounded by tall tubes and other glasses, several of which were within 6 or 8 inches


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    "pneumatic" definitions

    of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas)