Sentence examples for axle with from inspiring English sources

"Powell got so wrapped around the axle, with the Brits, the French and the Germans, everything started to hit him at once," said an administration official.

All Titans share a very stiff, fully boxed steel frame with an independent coil spring front suspension and a solid rear axle with dual-rate leaf springs.

"In one case, protesters jumped underneath a truck and tied themselves to the rear axle with plastic," Shawn Howard, a TransCanada spokesman, said by e-mail.

I made a cockamamie diagram on a paper napkin: engine, drive shaft, rear axle, with an egg-shaped mystery labeled "transmission," and rattled on vaguely about how the clutch engaged and disengaged the power of the engine.

The car, which has only 27,000 miles on it, has a 302-cubic-inch V-8 engine, C4 automatic transmission and a 3.55:1 rear axle with limited-slip differential.

Both the German and U.S. carriers of World War II were of the half-tracked type, which combined two standard wheels on the front axle with a rear propulsion system based on caterpillar tracks.

BENZ DNA -- The Crossfire shares a powertrain and axles with the Mercedes-Benz SLK (about 39percentt of its parts).

A16 Acela Service Remains Limited At least one Acela Express train will be ready to run after mechanics scavenged axles with good brakes from other Acela trains.

There is more aggression, however, between the concept's axles, with a horizontal side strake behind the front wheel and a steep windshield rake.

The wheels are mounted on two axles, with the front one pivoted in the middle on a joint that lets it turn like the front of a child's wagon.

The front track was widened by 14ins so the wheels would clear the bodywork, and new axles with reduction gears were needed to work with the standard engine and gearbox.