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adjective

linked

connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks

In a sentence

Six example sentences with linked, each labelled with its topic.

  • Four linked carriages sway together on the mountain line, and passengers can walk from the first to the last.

    Travel

  • The warehouse runs on linked conveyors, each one starting only when the belt ahead of it has cleared.

    Technology

  • The campus is a chain of linked pavilions, joined by glass corridors so nobody crosses the courtyard in rain.

    Architecture

  • The butcher twists the casing every few inches, so the sausages come out linked in a chain ready to hang.

    Cooking

  • The earliest freight trains ran linked wagons coupled by loose chains, and every start jerked the whole line forward.

    History

  • A nylon molecule is a chain of linked units, each joined to the next like wagons behind a locomotive.

    Science

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