How to Use engine in a Sentence

engine

1 of 2 noun

• The car has a four-cylinder engine.
• The tax cut could be an engine of economic growth.
• Like a sports car needs to warm its engine.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
• That is the engine of progress.
  — Keith Krach, Fortune, 7 June 2026
• Wait, who turned off the engine?
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
• Don’t even have to stop the engine.
  — Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
• So they’re tuned engines for that.
  — Kyle Cheromcha, The Drive, 1 Apr. 2026
• The fire is fought by six engines and one hand crew.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Ships of the World, start your engines.
  — Mike Snider, USA Today, 15 June 2026
• The sound of the engine is sweet music.
  — Josh Max, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• Burnout occurs when the engine runs too hot for too long.
  — Bybryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• The crew shot out the engine to stop the fleeing boat.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
• The plot engine is revving for real now.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
• Under sail, the boat has no engine noise.
  — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
• Both engines collapsed on them in that flight.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025
• These three even share the same antivirus engine.
  — PC Magazine, 2 Nov. 2025
• Rather, this engine emits a more droning zing.
  — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 25 Feb. 2026
• There’s a green bulb up front, charged off the engine battery.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
• The growth engine is adult learners.
  — Ian Gibson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
• The growth engine is adult learners.
  — Ian Gibson, Twin Cities, 1 May 2026
• Revved the engine for good measure.
  — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
• Let’s start with the engine options.
  — New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2026
• What’s your favorite type of engine?
  — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 8 Apr. 2026
• Henry parked the van in the gravel lot and cut the engine.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• The fire will be fought by five engines and one water tender.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• The fire is fought by four engines and two water tenders.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025
• 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
• An engine crew threw a 20-foot ladder to get over the wall.
  — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• Abarca cut the engines, and a chorus of nun birds rose from the forests.
  — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026

engine

2 of 2 verb

• Four engines one water tenderand two hand crews have all been fighting the fire.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• For one long, sparkly week, engines thrum like thunder as pre-, during- and after-parties thump.
  — Eric Barton, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
• Think of them as cigarette boats, large, powerful outboard engined boats that can race out and get among ships and cause direct damage that way.
  — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• Changes to the truck, from chassis to body to engine to interior, reflect consumer needs, requests and complaints.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2021
• From crying babies to engine turbines, the earbuds provided smooth listening and drowned out all distractions.
  — Nina Huang, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• Every decision during a race, from timing a pit stop and choosing the tires to engine settings and brake balance, is grounded in granular data.
  — Luc Hennekens, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The layout makes the Evija look mid-engined, except that peering through its rear window reveals springs and brightly anodized dampers, rather than a pair of cam covers.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025
• In order to troubleshoot the problem, crews are also educated on different planes and their components, including how many engines the aircraft may have or how many exit doors there are.
  — Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
• Is there any benefit to directing the executive who oversees engine procurement to procure electricity as well?
  — Marc Levinson, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Financial institutions face it when comparison engines frame value before customers ever engage the brand directly.
  — Teresa MacKintosh, Fortune, 13 June 2026
• The number 9 refers to the nine Merlin engines that power Falcon 9's first stage, according to NASA.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 30 June 2026
• But the analysts did point out that GE engines power three out of every four commercial engine flights globally, with a high-margin services business driving profitability.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
• Technical regulations were overhauled for the 2026 season, a key part being the hybrid V6 engines that increased electrical power and runusing fully-sustainable fuels.
  — Luke Smith, New York Times, 6 May 2026
• Vehicle telematics works by simply installing a device with a SIM card that allows remotely acquiring vehicle information like location, speed, tire pressure, and engine idle in real-time, faster and more accurately than ever before.
  — Ekim Saribardak, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Throughout the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, Ferrari refrained from building traditional open-top variants of its front-engined V-12 sports cars, instead making unique variants in smaller quantities with massaged looks (and, of course, a higher price).
  — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
• No pre-deployment The afternoon before hazardous weather is expected, LAFD officials are typically briefed by the National Weather Service, using that information to decide where to position firefighters and engines the following morning.
  — Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2025
• Not to be confused with the front-engined V-12 series of 250s (Ferrari nomenclature can get messy), the 1963 Ferrari 250 LM was a mid-engined Prancing Horse made to enable Maranello to homologate its new GT racing car in the early 1960s.
  — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 28 May 2026