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.
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Robinson was in the back seat of the engine when the crash happened.
—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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The whole middle of the engine’s completely ripped out.
—Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 29 July 2023
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Soon after, the migrants untied the rope and restarted the engine.
—Renata Brito, ajc, 17 June 2023
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The first way is to think of an AI engine as a supercharged focus group.
—John Attanasio, Variety, 8 May 2023
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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
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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
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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
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That led to the majority of the booster’s engines going out.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Unity is frequently used as a game engine, and video games have used AI for decades.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2023
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Forward of the beach club, compliments of the IPO engine layout, is the lower salon.
—Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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Related: The check engine light came on in his new Chevy in December.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
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The property owner told officials that the engine was not running when the plane struck a tree.
—David Chiu, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
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The trend was flat in the region for jewelry brands, which have long been an important growth engine.
—Carol Ryan, WSJ, 17 July 2023
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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
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The new mechanics enable workers to move engines through the process more quickly.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
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The emotional engine of the show wasn’t outrage.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2026
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The crew reported that the plane had struck a person on the runway and that an engine fire had started as a result of the impact.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
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According to the report, the car was found with the keys in the ignition and the engine off.
—Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 10 May 2026
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Passengers said panic took hold on the flight after an engine caught fire and the cabin began filling with smoke.
—Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
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The images also appear to show blood on the plane's engine.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 9 May 2026
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Because behind every engine, medic unit and station are human beings.
—Nick Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2026
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