Sentence examples for at the throttle from inspiring English sources

Bob Butterfield, senior engineer on the line, was at the throttle.

Running ahead of us the entire way would be No. 4, Summit, with Charlie Teague, the railway's president, at the throttle.

But all across America, men have discovered new thrills at the throttle of the snail of gasoline-powered locomotion, the riding lawn mower.

On Sunday night, he was at the throttle of an F-18 in the first wave of the attacks on Afghanistan.

DaimlerChrysler, G.M. and Honda are employing a slightly different method of minimizing the losses due to air flow restrictions at the throttle.

The study also shows that control of the separator pressure to keep the vapor fraction at the throttle valve exit as low as possible is an efficient method for purging nitrogen from BOG.

And pilots will not have to push and pull at the throttles — in effect, repeatedly stepping on the gas, then coasting — to maintain the altitude assigned by air traffic controllers as they begin a stairlike descent.

Next, LeMay's ship took off at 6 15 am, 4 15 pm Eastern War Time in Washington, with Lieutenant Colonel Kingsbury at the throttles and First Lieutenant Potts at the controls.

If your altitude is at least 1,000 ft., set the throttle to "idle" at this point with the mixture at full richness (red knob in).

But he [Vettel] was flat on the throttle at least 20 metres earlier than anyone else.

The backup station was programmed to run the throttle at high speed, so the drone accelerated and crashed.