How to Use horsepower in a Sentence

horsepower

noun

• But the history of the Viper is more than just a tale of horsepower and speed.
  — Bob Sorokanich, Robb Report, 17 July 2024
• This results in a ratio of 27 horsepower per ton, enough to drive it to a top speed of 42 miles per hour.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
• Birth, to be cradled where that horsepower meant to haul it.
  — Alfred Corn, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• Still, the horsepower in its three-cylinder engine amounts to a tepid 76.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• But the new 2022 BRZ does widen the horsepower gap between the two vehicles.
  — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
• The back straight is also where Long likes to remind us that his car has 640 horsepower.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 1 July 2021
• To run a stock car at Kansas again with limited horsepower and all the aero … no.
  — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2022
• The company added 22 new high horsepower units to its rental fleet during the year.
  — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2025
• This nets you more horsepower and all-wheel drive, and nearly five grand in savings against the Germans.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2021
• And Nvidia—whose chips provide the AI horsepower for many of these giant projects—likewise earned a spot.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
• This model was deemed stronger and lighter than the ones before with a 22 horsepower engine.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2022
• For this build, the team began with a RAV4 plug-in hybrid that provides 302 horsepower.
  — Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
• Kansas marks the final race of the season in which the rules package of 550 horsepower will be used this season.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 24 Oct. 2021
• The result is a reel with the finesse needed to land the smallest native, but with enough horsepower to tame the largest steelhead.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• Based on the Portofino's engine, the changes for the Roma include a fatter torque curve and 21 more horsepower.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2020
• After all, what's not to like about a blender that measures its output in horsepower?
  — Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2025
• With its 500 horsepower, this vehicle is for leaving folks in your dust on race tracks and open roads.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 2 Aug. 2023
• This is all to say here's a boxer with a whole lotta horsepower—or pony-power, to be exact.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 14 Nov. 2022
• Google wants this to feel flawless and — thanks to the raw horsepower of its cloud servers — even faster than local console or PC gaming.
  — Nick Statt, The Verge, 11 June 2019
• The ability to govern large horsepower keeps the car from careening off the road.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
• Several of the larger lakes have ramps and allow boats up to 9.9 horsepower.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
• The four-wheel-drive version has four motors that sit above the wheels, providing 750 horsepower.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2019
• In terms of power conversion, the motor makes just a tick over five horsepower.
  — William Roberson, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
• Tesla has yet to share horsepower and torque numbers for its future EV truck.
  — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 21 Oct. 2020
• And honestly a bulldozer would have been a better metaphor for the horsepower of my desire to push that pain out of her way.
  — Louise Gleeson, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• The horsepower that car produces -- 2,107! -- is mind-blowing.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2024
• This kind of imaging horsepower is a first in the Snapdragon 7 series.
  — Marco Chiappetta, Forbes, 20 May 2022
• The five-horsepower motor is capable of moving air at a rate of 140 cubic feet per minute — twice the flow rate of other shop vacs.
  — Good Housekeeping, 7 Feb. 2023
• Specifically, one horsepower is defined as the power needed to move 550 pounds one foot in one second.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025
• Engine: The engine is a 6.7 liter inline 6 cylinder Cummins turbo diesel, known for its impressive high levels of torque and big horsepower.
  — Tony Leopardo, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025