workings

How To Use workings In A Sentence

• Many people confuse the workings of capitalism that lead to lower costs and greater profits with free trade.
• The nature reserve is covered with quarry pits, grooves, and mines resulting from Roman and later workings.
• The inner workings of alien spacecraft are at last revealed!
• Brooks managed to squeeze 'peripatetic', 'equanimity', 'homeostasis', 'sojourner', 'grandiloquent' and 'didactic' into the brief 850 word article on the inner workings of Obama's mind, exposing a fragile psyche of his own, and a desperate need to validate his position as a national talking head. Ben Cohen: David Brooks and Big Words
• Shops and open markets lined the streets, blacksmiths and leather shops had iron workings and hides tanning outside.
• The workings of opera are turned inside out.
• This, admittedly, gives one a splendid insight into the more mysterious workings of the human mind.
• Our bewilderment derives from our failure to turn inward and really examine the workings of our own minds.
• In fact, it's precisely because we do not know how it works that we do not rule out the possibility that it does in fact work, the possibility even that others might understand the workings we do not -- hence the term arcanum, with its associations of secret knowledge. Archive 2008-08-01
• It's an odd story, a keek through the keyhole at the inner workings of how to stay famous, but it also serves to illustrate just how far the writer has come.