Sentence examples for a engine from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a engine" is not correct in written English; it should be "an engine." You can use "an engine" when referring to a machine that converts energy into mechanical motion, typically in the context of vehicles or machinery.

Example: "The car's engine was making a strange noise, so I took it to the mechanic."
Alternatives: "one engine" or "a motor."

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In the 20's, Henry Ford worked on a "flying flivver" -- not a car that flew but an everyman's airplane (with a Model A engine) intended to be the aeronautical counterpart to the Model T. The project was abandoned after a prototype crashed in 1928 and killed Ford's friend and test pilot, Harry Brooks.

Out in rural Kansas, boys start driving cars very young; Kenyon was eleven when his father allowed him to buy, with money he had earned raising sheep, an old truck with a Model A engine — the "coyote wagon," he and Bob called it.

Also discussed during the Porn Diet talk was the "Triple A engine" of anonymity, affordability, accessibility a term coined by sex researcher Alvin Cooper to describe the three key factors that come into play in the wake of increased online sexual activity.

The first step was obtaining a 1929 Model A engine in good shape.

PARIS — Shares of Rolls-Royce, the British aircraft engine maker, extended their declines on Friday after the chief executive of Qantas suggested that a design flaw or manufacturing defect was the most likely explanation for a engine blow-out that forced one of the Australian carrier's A380 jets to make an emergency landing in Singapore on Thursday.

Interestingly, Microsoft isn't just suing Barnes & Noble, captain of the great ship Nook, but also Foxconn and Inventec, which comprise the engine room — and have as little to do with UI optimization as a engine stoker does with the captain's table (and with that, the nautical metaphor overstays its welcome).

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A Lamborghini has an engine, a body and wheels.

They are sensitive a little for an engine with a low engine power.

Myxococcus xanthus cells harbor two motility machineries, type IV pili (Tfp) and the A-engine.

Dynamic RomR localization is essential for cell reversals, suggesting that RomR relocalization induces the polarity switching of the A-engine.

Thus, at the molecular level, a cellular reversal corresponds to the inversion of the polarity axis of proteins of T4P as well as of the A-engine.

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