"engine" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Maybe they thought it was some passing boat from Moreyville or up-Volga, with a balky engine.
- If we'd had to deal with a balky engine, I doubt we would have had the time to do as much as we have.
- Somebody was trying to start a balky engine in the driveway next door; it wheezed, it whirred, it coughed.
- Crabbing is mostly grunt work, setting traps, tending to a balky engine, slicing up dead fish for bait.
- Precious minutes were running down the drain as he attempted to get the balky engine into action.
- It appeared, the officials said, that a sticky valve on the balky third engine had failed to close, causing the engine to shut down.
- In some ways the thing had passed the limits of the clinically dead; sometimes they had to slam it into operation like push-starting a balky engine.
- The sound came more clearly, the rumbling backfire of a balky engine, the clatter of loose metallic parts.
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