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Six example sentences with pneumatic, each labelled with its topic.
The gym's pneumatic machines resist you with compressed air rather than steel plates, so the load never slams down.
Fitness
Bakery lines move flour through pneumatic tubes, blowing it from the silo to the mixer without anyone lifting a sack.
Cooking
Victorian offices shot messages between floors in pneumatic tubes, and the hiss of departing canisters punctuated every working day.
History
The warehouse robots grip boxes with pneumatic suction cups powered by a compressor that hums all night.
Technology
After surgery, pneumatic sleeves squeeze the patient's calves every minute to keep blood from pooling in the legs.
Medicine
A pneumatic organ action uses air pressure to open each pipe valve, so a light touch on the key moves a heavy mechanism.
Music
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