How to Use apparatus in a Sentence

apparatus

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  • Each gymnast competes on all four apparatuses and all scores count.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Biles had the top all-around score, and the high mark in three of four the individual apparatuses.
    — Ina Fried, Axios, 28 July 2024
  • Leave the whole apparatus on the stove, and let the residual heat and steam gently melt the chocolate and butter.
    — Charlotte Druckman, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The apparatus allows lifters to load up heavy and press with confidence, without the need for a spotter in case of failure.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • It was spread on social media by people who have long had links with the Kremlin’s state media apparatus.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 2024
  • For one, the apparatus can literally fan the flames of a fire by directing air — and therefore, oxygen — toward it.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
  • On that apparatus, her highflying tumbling always becomes a highlight.
    — Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The hidden mechanisms of patriarchy and expansionism suddenly came into focus as two facets of the same huge apparatus.
    — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The Israeli intelligence apparatus had for more than a year been in possession of a Hamas document that detailed the group’s plan for an attack.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Jan. 2024
  • That module snaps onto the hiker using a pair of carbon fiber braces for each leg hidden beneath a pair of Arc’teryx Gamma hiking pants to make the apparatus easy to get on and off.
    — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 29 July 2024
  • He’s been working on the mental side of competing, which gave him the confidence to be the first member of the U.S. team on most of the apparatus in the sessions in Paris so far.
    — Alice Park/paris, TIME, 31 July 2024
  • Then her gaze flicked over to the rolling drums of the apparatus and the black paper that had opened a window to her heart.
    — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
  • And that spot went to 19-year-old Kocian who turned in top scores on the apparatus at the trials.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Britney Spears is putting her dance skills to the test with a brand new apparatus.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The trick that’s worked best for me over the years doesn’t involve a third party apparatus.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The apparatus stands a few feet high, with three legs and a metal head that’s angled toward the sky.
    — Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The idea of a wave-dampening apparatus is not new, but what is new is the purpose and the scale of the Wavebreaker.
    — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The tan leather breathing apparatus Spurway wore on her chest was called a Salvus.
    — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
  • There was no sign that any of the security apparatus around Putin had - had switched sides.
    — CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • There was no sign that any of the security apparatus around Putin had- had switched sides.
    — CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • There is show-and-tell with an apparatus that can detect volatile chemicals in the parts-per-trillion range.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But the probes involve lasers, microscopes, and other apparatus far too heavy for such a small head.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The pack's frame bolts to the passenger-side frame rail, opposite the cooling apparatus attached to the driver-side rail.
    — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023
  • The box, big enough to hold a man and some electrical apparatus, was covered and kept dry, and a 6- to 9-meter iron rod passed upward through the box, ending in a sharp point.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Attached to one end of the pipe was a buoy to keep the apparatus afloat; on the other end, a metal grate weighed it down so river water could flow into a small glass jar.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Would part of that investment look at staffing up a huge apparatus for The Telegraph digitally here in the U.S?
    — Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
  • When the car reaches a specific speed, the apparatus triggers and propels the car into a series of rolls.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • Now the Trump campaign is corralling the entire GOP apparatus around a crusade that has the effect of undermining faith in the rule of law.
    — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • Firefighters equipped with breathing apparatus used three hose reels and a main jet to extinguish the fire.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Apr. 2023
  • And while the texture achieved with a food mill is an upgrade, the apparatus is cumbersome, clunky, and includes multiple pieces, one of which you’re bound to lose.
    — Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 13 Nov. 2023

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