Examples of “apparatus” in a Sentence

noun A set of equipment or machinery used for a particular purpose.

• The divers checked their breathing apparatus carefully before they went into the water.
• The lab was filled with strange apparatus for the chemistry experiment.
• Firefighters unloaded their apparatus from the truck.

noun A complex organizational or bureaucratic structure.

• The vast bureaucratic apparatus of the ministry made even small decisions take months.
• It takes a large administrative apparatus to run a big city's schools.
• The party's political apparatus controlled nearly every local election.