How To Use out of gear In A Sentence
- It's a good habit to take the car out of gear while you're at a stoplight.
- It's really one of those days; everything seems out of gear today.
- In the meantime, everything being again thrown out of gear by the aforesaid illness, I must let this piece of 'Proserpina' break off, as most of my work does -- and as perhaps all of it may soon do -- leaving only suggestion for the happier research of the students who trust me thus far. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
- threw the machine's pinion out of gear
- We are apt to despise tact as a petty accomplishment; but just as a trivial oversight may ruin the smooth working of complicated machinery, so trivial faults of tone and manner, or a little lack of conciliatoriness, which is something wholly different from unfaithful concession, may throw out of gear the movement of great societies. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
- Now, if something intervenes unexpectedly during the performance of this habitual activity, especially some opposition, some superfluous cajolement, correction, or similar thing, the intoxicated actor is thrown completely out of gear, and can not be restored to it, nor is he able properly to oppose this obstacle. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
- The car is out of gear.
- The rain also put normal life out of gear as a number of residential areas were flooded and the main road in the town remained under water.
- She said nothing in case her temper slipped out of gear.
- Nos. 1 and 5, on the left side, Nos. 2 and 6, on the right side, step on the circle; take carriage eccentric levers and throw eccentrics into gear; withdraw the lever from the sockets, and insert them into holes in the wheel, and heave the mortar-carriage up against the front hurter; throw eccentric out of gear; place levers on the circle close to Brackets, butts forward, and retire to their stations. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.