6 sentences with 'chain'

Example sentences and phrases with the word chain and other words derived from it.

« "I had seen many such horse-driven machines," Henry later wrote, "but that one had a chain that established a connection between the engine and the rear wheels of the frame on which the boiler was mounted." »
« An efficient bureaucracy, in which the individual people within it were less important than the system itself (i.e. its rules, its records and its chain of command), was always essential in large political units. »
« Not only did the Spanish own almost all of South America, all of Central America and the American West as far as Oregon, but they also held territory in the Pacific island chain of the Philippines. »
« Because of this horrendous food chain, the scientific community considers the occurrence of thyroid cancer in countless children in Chernobyl, who are the most likely to consume milk, to be irreparable; moreover, it has been found that radioactive iodine concentrates more easily in growing people. »
« Volcanic wreaths like the Hawaiian Islands are aligned in a northwest-southeast direction, and their respective ages grow as you move away from Hawaii and its active volcanoes," he says, "until you reach the northwest end of the chain, where a volcano that has been extinct for 40 million years is located. This kind of alignment comes from the slow movement of the oceanic plate over the hot spot. »
« The chain starts when the bacillus Yersinia pestis attacks the rat. »
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