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    Use "engine" in a sentence

    engine example sentences

    engine


    engined


    engines


    1. "I only know the theory, I never worked on the engine itself


    2. His car was still gutted with no engine


    3. The reactor in the ship's engine might be used in some way to power the grid of a modest sized nation


    4. ’ Stephen muttered as we reach the car; he’s got one of those automatic unlocking devices on his car and, by the time the crowd have caught up with us, I am in the front seat buckling on the seat belt and he is starting the engine


    5. Emma’s obviously on the lookout for me as, by the time I have parked the car on her drive, turned the engine off and got the driver’s door open, she is waiting to give me a hug


    6. ‘I’ve not seen anyone use it for ages … well, apart from the steam engine buffs – some of them used to use it …’


    7. The entire 'carburetor' of the antique daedalus engine that drove this early starship was gone


    8. The reactor had been cooling for about fifty four hours now, but the instruments on Gordon's lamp were thirty years beyond those of the Presidente Lula, and the Lula's instrumentation was up to date, even if its engine was dated


    9. Its engine is an ancient daedalus and its radiation is lethal, but it is the biggest thruster in this system


    10. Crossing the road is a wager with the combustion engine and irrationality

    11. Behind me I heard the sound of a heavy diesel engine barking at the walls of the warehouse


    12. ‘You been in a car before, Karal?’ he asked, as he started the engine


    13. “Search engine” said Fred, “What’s that then?”


    14. time an issue when the engine runs without rest


    15. of the diesel engine in boots that have a stubborn


    16. The dark-edged murmur of a car engine is covered


    17. He started his engine, then came back to the door and gave it one last mighty kick and told the culprit to get off his bus


    18. With a voice hoarse from too many cruel cigarettes, he rasped over the growl of the engine as we headed up the mountain, 'Please, if there is one thing unique to this particular island and something no other Hellenic island can offer, it is this very village


    19. In Felix I sensed the businessman, I could tell he was in the habit of entering his problems in his mental search engine and waiting for a list of alternatives to come up but this time he didn't stand a chance because the wide blue was smiling as wide and as blue as only the wide blue can smile and the balmy air was becalming his twiddling and so he was forced to relax a little more, close his eyes and lay back


    20. He searched every channel of the render engine and found no references to her

    21. All became still, except for the sound of a car engine being revved outside, followed by the squeal of tyres on damp tarmacadam


    22. When using aspx view engine, to have a consistent look and feel, across all pages of the application, we


    23. Lord Tarak had called it a Glider, but it was more like a cigar with a small engine


    24. They began showing up in the main engine room walking around taking measurements and making notes, much to the chagrin of Chief Swanson


    25. They would come into the engine room and simply watch what everyone was doing, writing copious notes in their books


    26. seven into the bucket, the high pitched snarl of a revving engine


    27. The engine is


    28. car, and the engine turns over and over, RRRRrrrrr


    29. You notice that as the engine


    30. There are two very distinct engine signatures; they are Scather ships

    31. ” The tech turned some dials, “this is very unusual sir, there does not appear to be an engine on the third ship


    32. engine being revved outside, followed by the squeal of tyres on


    33. looking for pest control service in Fullerton, California, you should know what he or she is likely to type into the search engine to find that product


    34. I quickly sneak the car into a space and turn the engine off


    35. All of a sudden, Dave pulls into a layby and, after a second’s hesitation, turns the engine off and turns to look at me


    36. He parks outside his house, turns the engine off and sits, his hands on the steering wheel, staring straight ahead


    37. He put the keys in the ignition and started the engine


    38. the beer engine smoothly


    39. Most of his remarks concerned the defects of the engine he


    40. Pre-combustion engine fittings still hang on the walls

    41. The driver grunted his assent, quickly starting the engine and


    42. the cobbles with its engine racing


    43. He fumbled with the keys in the pre-dawn light but eventually found the keyhole and, throwing his hastily packed bag onto the front passenger seat, he jumped into the driver’s seat and started the engine


    44. The sound of an engine coming along behind him came as something of a shock after so long in the silence of the countryside


    45. As Ken starts the engine and heads out towards the main Bideford road in the direction of Sillick Farm, Jock turns to Shaun


    46. The pump engine was a pre-war installation, heavy and


    47. turn the engine over slowly a couple of times


    48. perfectly, the engine would burst into life, spewing blue fumes and


    49. quite – entirely allowing the engine to run for a couple of minutes to


    50. Just as the engine fired, and he struggled with the choke














































    1. The two engined aircraft was called the HH-3F Pelican


    2. Long range ice patrol and search and rescue missions were ably carried out by giant 4 engined C-130 Hercules airplanes which had a nautical range of 3,000 miles


    3. Mark was approaching a twin engined Beechcraft that had been warming up


    4. AWACS: Airborne Warning and Command System, a converted 707 or 767 model Boeing four engined jet aircraft equipped with a hugely powerful Westinghouse/Northrop Grumman radar mounted in a UFO saucer-like rotating motorized dome affixed to the aircraft's upper rear fuselage


    5. And, even if she had been engined to go twenty knots, there would not have been behind that speed the enormous mass, so difficult to check in its impetus, the terrific weight of which is bound to do damage to itself or others at the slightest contact


    1. Solomon Browne was despatched to save those aboard the Union Star freighter that had flooded engines and ripped its anchor chain


    2. The 'magic wand' principal was all I knew about starship engines before I met you


    3. doostEr pondered the idea that this Ava, who deleted herself from search engines, could be aiding her old lover in stealing the cargo from its rightful owner who was deeper in the chaparral? It could be that Ava was arranging to have the cargo hijacked as it went by? He was suspicious of that Sorceress because of the deletions from his searches


    4. The sound of the engines grows closer


    5. Raleigh… what’s the current state of this bucket's engines?"


    6. For about two years now I have entered a very interesting phase of my life, since I have more and more psychic experiences; yet, I have also perceived certain paradox incidents which appear more and more frequently, surrounding me like a Sonic War: At daybreak, when I do the most important meditation exercise of the day, there is incredible mobility in the block of flats next to my house: A number of cars come and go continuously in and out of their outdoor garage, which happens to be right next to my bedroom window! Even earlier, from 4:00 to 6:00 am (no exaggeration) they race engines incessantly and/or slam car doors uncountable times! Why, indeed? Only God -or Satan- knows! The fact is that more often than not I can hardly sleep, I feel exasperated and I can't meditate properly


    7. The pinprick flares from the Lancers’ engines centered themselves briefly in it


    8. It was after she tried the controls that she came back out to use the Android's eyes to see what was wrong with the engines


    9. that fires the engines of production, commanding


    10. The difference in temperature was at once soothing and exciting; so warm I thought I was standing in front of the engines

    11. The engines were throbbing


    12. Even as we cut engines and drifted around the headland and into the bay of Diafani, it was clear this was no tourist centre


    13. Okay, so transport systems here are a lot more primitive than on Earth but it has to be said that the so-called progressive move to internal combustion engines is a double-edged sword


    14. For a start, the machinery here, whilst performing well, is not on the same scale as the massive engines of the industrial revolution across in England


    15. We were almost two miles off shore when we cut the engines and made ready to fish, testing the twine with gentle tugs and hanging the blinding light over the side to attract the squid


    16. My engines will be sucking vacuum for fifteen seconds, the core will go cold and we'll have to re-light


    17. Small combustible engines power some vehicles, for shipping and hauling


    18. The powerful engines driving the propellers had little or no effect whilst the vessel was hurled about


    19. Great, steaming engines spewed out fire


    20. Then one day Lady Killian came to Duncan all excited saying she and Mistress Tara could reconfigure the engines and give him 40% more power, and it would only take a day to refit the engines

    21. But after Lady Killian spoke to him, he agreed to let them work on his engines on the condition that he be allowed to help in the process


    22. “Creating a blog and publishing pages online is a job done by everyone today but what counts more is building true respect as an author in the eyes of online community and search engines


    23. Search engines should have the list below omitted


    24. The scene manager is a little more complicated, but not as complicated as the rendering engines it calls


    25. engines, provided by a roving band of engineers which had,


    26. Amanda woke to the throbbing engines and waited for Brownie's words of encouragement as he passed


    27. engines from a man named George


    28. By time he was fifteen, Tom knew a great deal about engines and


    29. Suddenly, there was a roar of engines from the road as three men


    30. Alex stabs at the volume button on the side of the phone so that he can hear clearly above the noise of car engines

    31. I need turbofan engines for a Boeing 777


    32. So I thought back to how easy it was to take the 727 and steal those engines


    33. Think of this Otto; if we hijack a 777 and rip off the engines, landing gear and avionics, my problem will be solved and there will be considerable profit to be made!”


    34. “You will find a way to bring two engines intact within six months


    35. Imagine 7,000 feet and still not able to take off with four 1,200 horsepower engines


    36. He had a number of model engines based on full-sized prototypes


    37. “I noticed that they have different engines depending on the model: Rolls Royce or GE


    38. The engines are larger than I thought and are wider than a normal semi


    39. “Yes, but there is a global shortage of these engines and no used ones


    40. Surprisingly, the engines sounded the same but quieter, the noise now coming from the air brakes

    41. “Sue? Do you know how the aeroplane knows that its engines are running normally?”


    42. He gave the throttles full thrust but the engines did not have time to spool up


    43. “Nelson! Are the engine cradles ready to take the engines?”


    44. I shall cut the main beams in the wings and other parts of the fuselage once the engines and undercarriage have been removed


    45. Leave the cranes where they are and pin the Albatross in place with the excavators while we secure the engines


    46. The idea is based around two of the most popular services on the Internet to date, dating and pay per click search engines


    47. Engines were shut down and a great swelling of celebration noise and shouts of glee could be heard as the breeze gently wafted down from high


    48. There would be no turning back once the engines were lit, and the captain's public space was busy


    49. They questioned him at length about technology, about the engines that drive starships and the foundries that forge silicon


    50. ; of the capital which the undertaker of a mine employs in sinking his shafts, in erecting engines for drawing out the water, in making roads and waggon-ways, etc














































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    Synonyms for "engine"

    engine locomotive locomotive engine railway locomotive

    "engine" definitions

    motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work


    something used to achieve a purpose


    a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks


    an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.