Example sentences for: workings

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

  • USAT 's front reports that the Supreme Court, irked about last spring's tell-all book by an ex-clerk about the Court's inner workings, has told this term's clerks that the Supremes' secrets are to be kept "forever."

  • A common press syndrome is immense interest in the politics of a bill, but almost no interest in the workings of the law it becomes.

  • As a tech-savvy non-physician intimately familiar with both the inner workings of medical care and the power of information technology systems to create effective online communities, John Lester was less proprietary than most physicians are about medicine's proper professional “turf.”

  • "Crichton isn't nearly as interested in people and their inner workings as he is in things and their inner workings," but that doesn't stop the book from being fun to read: "It's the geeky stuff, in fact, that makes Crichton's books so hugely entertaining" (Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Times Book Review ). A few critics can't work up any excitement, labeling it just another "dull time-travel tale" (James Poniewozik, Time ) that is bound for the movies.

  • He speaks the movie's epitaph, "Darkness and light, strife and love: Are they the workings of one mind, the feature of the same face?


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