sprocket
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Over in a dilapidated shack on the opposite side of the highway, 24-year-old Nasratullah Raihan said much the same as he watched a repairman fiddle with the rear sprocket of his bicycle.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2021
He’s always been a gearhead, devoted to celluloid and sprocket holes, but his best movies are also sentimental as hell—big, sloppy tearjerkers wrapped inside clockwork thrillers.
From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020
At the Central Wood Car Wash in Largo, Md., owner Paul Earp turned on the big conveyor belt only to discover a cold-fractured sprocket.
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2017
The camera took one picture at a time, the film being wound on manually by means of a sprocket wheel that engaged with the holes on the sides of the film strip.
From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2014
“Sonny built a rocket? He doesn’t even know how to put the sprocket chain back on his bike when it slips off.”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
Vocabulary lists containing sprocket
Mechanical Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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Engineering - High School
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