ratchet

How To Use ratchet In A Sentence

• The cooperative transport in a two-dimensional system of hard balls is studied, which is underdamped and under the deterministically flashing ratchet potential.
• It kinks, detaches itself from actin, unkinks, and reattaches, and thereby ratchets along the actin filament in a series of power strokes.
• Just in the name of dignity you will need to ratchet up the effort three more points, minimum. Times, Sunday Times
• Pratchett is great, no matter what, but this is my least favorite. Book Report: Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett
• The purpose of the referendum is to further ratchet down our interests,’ said Phillip.
• He has made some bloomers in his time, from the failed bid for American General to his company's attempts to ratchet up his pay just as policyholders' bonuses were going in the other direction.
• It has a ratchet effect on people working as hard as they can, to lift the whole team up. Times, Sunday Times
• To unscrew the casing is to throw open such a Pandora's Box of nuts and springs, axles, ratchets and governors as to confound all attempts to recapture them.
• The rod bent double, the reel shrieked and ratcheted.
• In this case, the geography of industrial organization ratchets up a sequence of scales from local to regional to national, and ultimately to global.