Workings

"Workings" in a Sentence (12 examples)

It's a drama where you can enjoy the delicate workings of a woman's mind.

Sami knows everything about the inner workings of this organization.

Scientists hope the instruments on board the orbiter will help solve the mysteries of the inner workings of our nearest star.

Do you understand the inner workings of a car?

You have to understand the inner workings of yourself.

Understand the inner workings of you.

You need to understand your inner workings.

I think you've got the workings of a great college essay.

Elias was fascinated by the workings of the human body and spent many years studying anatomy and physiology.

He had been British Consul in Holland, and had seen the workings of the Amsterdam Bourse and the arbitrage business between London and Amsterdam, which was considerable in the middle of the eighteenth century.

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Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

The main platforms are unusually far apart, because the two centre tracks were lifted after the East Coast Main Line was diverted in 1983 to avoid now defunct new coal workings.

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