Sentence examples for a punctured tyre from inspiring English sources

In any discussion about tax-dodging, the same old images crop up: squeezing a balloon, pumping a punctured tyre, playing whack-a-mole.

Finally, 75 years after a man named Charlie Holland led a three-man team on an exploratory venture that ended when his pump broke and he was unable to reflate a punctured tyre, Britain has its first winner of the Tour de France.

Briton Chris Froome overcame a punctured tyre to maintain his overall lead of the Criterium du Dauphine.

London Olympic silver medallist Lizzie Armitstead remains the leading British cyclist in the overall standings, despite suffering a punctured tyre for the second day in a row.

It also brought heavy rains in the afternoon and a punctured tyre, which I fixed by the roadside before riding further west through eerily still countryside.

Thus a driver does not encounter a punctured tyre as a lump of rubber of measurable mass; she encounters it as a damaged item of equipment, that is, as the cause of a temporary interruption to her driving activity.

Still, they were involved in only one significant accident, and that appeared to be the result of a punctured tire.

But almost immediately the promise begins leaking out of the metaphor like air from a punctured tire.

The punctured tyre had broken quite a crucial part of the floor, where the exhaust blows on it to create downforce.

A punctured rear tyre on lap 35 ended his hopes of a dramatic recovery.

Garages and tyre centres are dealing with countless thousands of punctured tyres, damaged tracking or broken springs that don't justify making a claim.