How to Use outboard motor in a Sentence

outboard motor

noun

• But the swim had to be one-armed, with feet kicking like an outboard motor.
  — Lesley Paterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2023
• Carlos and Willy sat in the stern, next to the outboard motor.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Be sure that boat is clean and dry (drain plug out, outboard motor tipped down to drain out water).
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2018
• Linda from next door asked whether the craft would be sailed, rowed or powered by an outboard motor.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2020
• The boat is believed to be a small fishing vessel with an outboard motor.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2021
• After a few hours in the water, the outboard motor stalled, and the raft began to sink.
  — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Keene’s grandfather cut the outboard motor and put a finger to his lips.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The cost of fuel’s gone up a little bit, but outboard motors are a lot more efficient.
  — Steve Waters, miamiherald, 11 Feb. 2018
• Two-stroke outboard motors can be terrible.
  — James Morris, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
• Many areas will require a bigger duck boat with an outboard motor, and some spots can be accessed on foot.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 8 Dec. 2020
• On the other hand, the audience rebuffed the two-stroke outboard motor ban.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2022
• About an hour into the journey, the outboard motor on their 20-foot fishing boat groaned and died.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2019
• Boaters use a deep-cycle marine battery to start and run outboard motors or to power a trolling motor.
  — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2023
• For all day power and blazing top speed, an electric outboard motor is the most popular choice.
  — Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021
• Some of the places puddle ducks like best simply can’t be accessed with a regular outboard motor.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 14 Dec. 2020
• Freighter-style canoes with outboard motors drifted adjacent to the dock.
  — Brian Irwin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
• The shark can be seen lunging at the boat's stern, ramming into the outboard motors and thrashing about the water.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 29 July 2023
• The boat had only a small outboard motor, which wasn’t powerful enough for so many passengers.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• One raised his head from the water and bit a corner of the outboard motor almost delicately.
  — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
• There, everyone comes and goes on longboats that have awnings, a row of rudimentary seats, and a small outboard motor.
  — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
• Panga boats are fishing vessels that tend to be about 20 feet long and often are powered by outboard motors.
  — Sonali Kohli, latimes.com, 19 June 2018
• The boat was a 33-foot Protector Targa, a speed boat with an outboard motor.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• Boarding the inflatable raft, equipped with a powerful outboard motor, is timed to the low tide that afternoon.
  — Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2022
• Each day Julia watched for the postman to deliver the mail, his hand on the outboard motor steering him toward the dock.
  — Jennifer Gilmore, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• But their needs for cash, for buying everything from outboard motors to music downloads for flip phones, is increasing.
  — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• Iranian patrol boats, some powered only by twin outboard motors, are small, nimble and hard to detect.
  — Adam Schreck, Fortune, 3 May 2026
• He was known to have been a heroin user, had been convicted of stealing an outboard motor and was suspected of other thefts.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• Many of the maritime runs are made in pangas, rudimentary wooden fishing boats with an outboard motor that can pull up to beaches.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
• Khosravani turned off his outboard motor once the woman was close to the boat, then leaned over and managed to hook his arms beneath her armpits and yank her onto the deck.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• Officers described it as a center console boat with a light blue hull with multiple white outboard motors and may have blue or dark blue bottom paint.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024