pendulum - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • dowse: As a dowsing pendulum it is the perfect tool!
  • swing: A prepared test piece, usually notched, is broken by a swinging pendulum.
  • suspend: Petit Mal consists of a pair of bicycle wheels that support a pair of pendulums suspended on a single axis.
  • push: Discount usability: time to push back the pendulum?
  • hold: I had a pendulum with me so I asked Jane to sit at the table and hold the pendulum just above the surface.

Adjective modifier

  • inverted: We investigate an inverted pendulum on a cart subject to a delayed feedback control force which tries to balance the pendulum.
  • simple: The simple pendulum consists of a weight hanging at the end of a string or wire.
  • double: The method is illustrated by two numerical examples, namely a single pendulum on a cart and a parametrically driven inverted double pendulum.
  • political: Waiting for the political pendulum to swing has not worked.

Modifies a noun

  • bob: There are two forces acting on the pendulum bob.
  • swing: Will the pendulum swing toward the letters to spell a name?
  • clock: Also a double pendulum clock for use at sea.
  • arbitration: Key Points 1. Strikes in essential services should be outlawed in favor of pendulum arbitration.
  • suspension: The tower clock in Old Court suddenly stopped: the pendulum suspension spring had snapped.
  • rod: Later still, pendulum rods were made of materials which hardly expanded at all.

Noun used with modifier

  • quartz: I do use a quartz crystal pendulum for this work.
  • crystal: I do use a quartz crystal pendulum for this work.

Possessives

  • motion: The pendulum's motion can be detected using an induction coil.

Preposition: of

  • clock: He noticed that the pendulums of two clocks hung on a wall close together would swing 180° out of phase.

Preposition: with

  • pouch: Round cut Clear Quartz medium size pendulum with pouch.

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