Example sentences for: gearing

How can you use “gearing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some of the more modern Adlestrop designs have a special `quick release' feature which enables the case to fly open at this point and fling your underclothes into the conveyor belt's gearing mechanism.”

  • Bobby Kennedy, gearing up in the fall of 1959 to manage his brother's upcoming presidential run, visited Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch to inquire after the Senate majority leader's presidential ambitions.

  • Hersh's publisher, Little, Brown, had been gearing up for a blockbuster, and ABC News was planning a documentary.

  • The story follows the negotiations, occasionally lapsing into celebratory narration ("And so a pair of skilled corporate sherpas--one representing each side--started gearing up for the climb to the summit."

  • "The Republican attack machine is gearing up," Reich writes, "and I'm one of the targets."


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