How to Use lathe in a Sentence

lathe

noun
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  • There’s cotton on the counter, a lathe at the ready, test tubes waiting to be filled.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Dad hats serve a purpose, like a lathe or an Allen wrench.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The tailstock of any lathe has a hole to accept a center.
    — Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The bowl on my desk, which was turned on a lathe from a single piece of wood, is by Ed Moulthrop.
    — As Told To Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • But, brake rotors have to be deburred on a lathe to get rid of any sharp edges, and that’s not easy.
    — Cari Shane, Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Shape on a lathe, or with a spokeshave or surform rasp.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Crews were able to salvage one of the paintings by cutting it out of its lathe-and-plaster wall.
    — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The box was made with a lathe and was packed with earth and stone, below which was a purple woolen cloth covering the coins.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The cutting lathe makes the master copy of a record—the one sent to a pressing plant for mass reproduction.
    — Neil Shah, WSJ, 22 July 2017
  • The original photo is of Naomi in front of a lathe, bending over to peer at her work.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Also pictured are Hayden Merza bending down to look at the lathe while Lou Vu looks on.
    — Courant Community, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The term refers to wood that was historically carved and shaped using a lathe.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Smitty used a lathe and other machine tools to make the prototype parts.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The metallic guts of clocks gleam in handmade brass precision, as the hum of a small lathe and muted chimes drift from Daniel’s workshop.
    — cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The sections were cut into billets, bat-length oblongs of wood that could be shaped by lathe, sander, and polish.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Each time my father will go back to the same man with the lathe, then elderly, and painstakingly replace each one.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
  • In addition to their gardens, the couple also built a carriage house, a lathe house and a potting shed.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
  • Depending on the day of the week, the space may clickety-clack to the sound of a lathe winding molybdenum wire around side rods, or the ragged hiss of gas flames heating and sealing glass bulbs.
    — Roy Furchgott, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Brown operated a turret lathe, which was used to turn out airplane parts.
    — John Pope, NOLA.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • That’s where Hudnall’s experience with a lathe, trimming tools, and his ear for what sounds right comes into play.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Using his army of tools, a mighty wood lathe, and solid block of wood, Kennard saws and sharpens the wood to create the decorative boxes.
    — Jordan Valinsky, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2015
  • Frank Howarth did exactly that, and complete with the requisite years of waiting to make sure the trunk-wood was dried out before attempting to get it on the lathe.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2016
  • In the end, his detective work disclosed that the lathe worker was Naomi Parker Fraley.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Two years later, a worker lost an index finger to a lathe at the facility.
    — R.a. Schuetz, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Paul fashioned the bomb by making a wooden box, covering it with foam, then using a lathe to smooth it before it was painted a dull green.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Rings made of wood, or with wood inlays, are carved on a lathe, and some rings are coated in Cerakote, a hardy ceramic finish that is used to paint guns and airplane parts.
    — Leto Sapunar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The egg shape is built like a small airplane or a canoe, on a skeleton of ribs covered with bent wood lathes, and then coated with papier-mache and glass fiber.
    — Anne Raup, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2016
  • The subtle, symmetrical texture on the dial, known as guilloche, is carved by hand with the help of a lathe, akin to a very intricate spirograph.
    — Mark Cho, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Kompfner built his first traveling-wave tubes in the Birmingham lab, winding the long copper helices himself on a lathe.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2015
  • Preciado and his assistant produced the run themselves, using a lathe and walnut and red oak scraps.
    — Samuel Rutter Kate Guadagnino Lisa Wong MacAbasco Aimee Farrell Anna Furman, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022

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