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 "
1 And I wanted to ratchet that up 10 times for Green Room.
2 This summit is about persuading other countries to ratchet up their ambition.
3 The ratchet of the wheel clacked, and the hurried ticking was loud.
4 Instead, she's managed to ratchet up the already lofty expectations even further.
5 You could deliberately ratchet up your privacy settings, but most students didn't.
1 The unignorable question now is whether it has suffered an irreversible rachet of decline?
2 Most relationships fail not because of who we are (control freaks, lovers of rachet lovers, etc.
3 There is the creaking of a chain, and the loud tinkle as the check of the capstan falls into the rachet .
4 Because of that hideous smile, Matthew felt the danger in the room rachet up, like a bowstring tightening to loose an evil arrow.
5 Siptu, the union representing the drivers, said the action by the company appeared to show it was attempting to " rachet up" the dispute.
1 They began their sloshing ratch back to east.
2 If you're trying to ratch off a lee shore it's no time to be pulling down your canvas.
3 You had no business ratching out of that harbor in the dark.
4 Making Ratched a human being was no small feat.
5 About 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.
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