Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
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Examples for "ratchet"
Examples for "ratchet"
1And I wanted to ratchet that up 10 times for Green Room.
2This summit is about persuading other countries to ratchet up their ambition.
3The ratchet of the wheel clacked, and the hurried ticking was loud.
4Instead, she's managed to ratchet up the already lofty expectations even further.
5You could deliberately ratchet up your privacy settings, but most students didn't.
1The unignorable question now is whether it has suffered an irreversible rachet of decline?
2Most relationships fail not because of who we are (control freaks, lovers of rachet lovers, etc.
3There is the creaking of a chain, and the loud tinkle as the check of the capstan falls into the rachet.
4Because of that hideous smile, Matthew felt the danger in the room rachet up, like a bowstring tightening to loose an evil arrow.
5Siptu, the union representing the drivers, said the action by the company appeared to show it was attempting to "rachet up" the dispute.
1They began their sloshing ratch back to east.
2If you're trying to ratch off a lee shore it's no time to be pulling down your canvas.
3You had no business ratching out of that harbor in the dark.
4Making Ratched a human being was no small feat.
5About Ratch Group PCL Ratch Group Public Company Limited is a Thailand-based holding company engaged in the investment in other companies.
6"Oh, yes..." She ratched quickly through the pile of spare parts on the floor beside him and found what he wanted.