How to Use engine in a Sentence

engine

noun

• The car has a four-cylinder engine.
• The tax cut could be an engine of economic growth.
• Robinson was in the back seat of the engine when the crash happened.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
• The soldier was not there for the tank’s engine or turret or treads.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• The engines flare to life a mile and a half above the surface, shedding enough speed to land safely.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
• The whole middle of the engine’s completely ripped out.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 29 July 2023
• Soon after, the migrants untied the rope and restarted the engine.
  — Renata Brito, ajc, 17 June 2023
• The first way is to think of an AI engine as a supercharged focus group.
  — John Attanasio, Variety, 8 May 2023
• While Berben’s white Jeep Wrangler was parked at the curb still in drive with its engine on, Walton showed up.
  — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• At the last minute, Williams took it back to the drawing board and scored it using Helena’s theme as the melodic engine.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• To your left, an engine hums and a man’s face is lit from the glow of his phone as he doom-scrolls in the driver’s seat until his order is up.
  — Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
• That led to the majority of the booster’s engines going out.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• He was stranded on the starting grid when his car wouldn't start after Roger Penske's command to start the engines.
  — CBS News, 28 May 2023
• The Maui Fire Department confirmed those calls and said an engine in the area was on the scene within five minutes.
  — Brianna Sacks and Allyson Chiu, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The husband found his wife sitting in her car in the garage with the engine running and windows down, distraught and crying.
  — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 14 July 2023
• Unity is frequently used as a game engine, and video games have used AI for decades.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2023
• Forward of the beach club, compliments of the IPO engine layout, is the lower salon.
  — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2024
• Plus, the rocket engines must shut off at a precise moment so the craft doesn’t bounce back up off the lunar surface.
  — Popular Science, 22 Aug. 2023
• The plan is to be the engine behind these types of courses and programs offered by colleges, not to compete with them.
  — Derek Newton, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Related: The check engine light came on in his new Chevy in December.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• The property owner told officials that the engine was not running when the plane struck a tree.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• The trend was flat in the region for jewelry brands, which have long been an important growth engine.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 17 July 2023
• The spacecraft’s main engine—which burns liquid methane and liquid oxygen—is the first of its kind to be used in a moon landing.
  — Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
• The new mechanics enable workers to move engines through the process more quickly.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Sisi agreed and deliveries of about 150 engines are likely to start next month, say the people.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• If a house is a machine for living, as Le Corbusier said, then the kitchen is its engine.
  — Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• The two deisel engines will deliver a top speed of 18 knots, while one diesel generator takes care of the hotel load.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2023
• The Lego set, which has a steam train — the engine, coal tender and a three-room passenger carriage with lights — is ideal for kids and kid-at-heart adults, alike.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Nov. 2023
• California's ban phases in next year and prohibits the sale of new small gas engines.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• Because of engine trouble, the bus didn't make it to its Tallahassee stop.
  — Regan McCarthy, NPR, 31 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024