Definition of time machine in US English:
time machine
nountaɪm məˈʃintīm məˈSHēn
(in science fiction) a machine capable of transporting a person backward or forward in time.
Example sentencesExamples
- So the convention will only work if someone has already built a time machine.
- Both want everything for themselves, neither are taken seriously but only Stuey is capable of building a time machine.
- I told Peter that I would love to have a time machine, just so I could go and observe the people who built and used Newgrange.
- It is almost as if he has found a time machine and is talking to the actual characters involved which in some way makes the whole thing a bit more interesting.
- The plan is, if they sell enough, to build a time machine and to go back and try and change the result of the 2004 US election.
- It was a messy affair involving a time machine and a mirror.
- Add this to the list of places I want to visit when they invent the time machine.
- Visitors will be whisked back to 975 AD in a state-of-the-art time machine.
- I erred on the side of caution and will be dispatching Iain to the earlier date as soon as a time machine becomes available.
- A vivid imagination is the closest we come to a time machine, but it works only by taking us away from the present.
- The time machine then speeds forward into the very distant future.
- Turns out they built a time machine, and swiped armaments from the future.
- In the title play, an empty swimming pool becomes a time machine for Sheppard, an architect who is looking to resurrect his dead wife.
- Think of the 1930s, and there is only one city where a time machine would drop these pleasure-seekers.
- Take the time machine to 2004 and you find another equally rare substance - oil.
- But instead of setting her time machine to shoot into the future, she would rather go back in time.
- So when we built the time machine it was Ethan who came back from the Future.
- Hermione mischievously disrupts the time-space continuum with a time machine which allows her to spy on herself from afar.
- To fully understand this, we need to take a trip in the magic time machine back to 2002 and my final year of secondary school.
- I feel guilty over all that but what can I do except build a time machine, maybe I just don't deserve to be happy.