"engine" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If an engine spins too quickly, valve springs cannot act quickly enough to close the valves.
- The engines are not actually spinning in reverse, as the term may lead you to believe.
- In a car, you need a clutch because the engine spins all the time, but the car's wheels do not.
- At 70mph the engine is spinning at just under 2,000rpm in top, with sufficient in-gear acceleration to deal with most situations.
- There was a window that showed a black sky punctuated with stars, and in the room itself, mounted on rigid metal bars, eight engines were spinning.
- The engines were spinning on rigid shafts, and it should be the shafts that spun.
- - A jumpship slid by fifty meters away, its engines spinning flames like a furnace.
- He tried again; once more the engine spun without firing.
- He started the engine and the propeller spun.
- Even this relatively small engine will spin the rear tires easily if four-wheel drive is not engaged.
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