Sentence examples for bogies from inspiring English sources

So, like my brother, father, grandfathers and great-grandfathers before me, down I went; down 1,200 metres at a one-in-three gradiron in iron bogies to a black labyrinth of tunnels where I would stay, with a throat full of coaldust, for 10 years, nine months and 24 days.

Yet rail takes only 5m tonnes a year of the 100m-odd now crossing the frontier; for a start, because Spanish trains run on a wider gauge than in the rest of Europe, so the bogies have to be laboriously changed, or the goods transhipped, where the rival gauges meet.

Large aircraft, such as the Boeing 747, incorporate multiple bogies (several wheels arranged in a variety of configurations) in their landing gear to spread out the weight of the aircraft and to facilitate stowage after retraction in flight.

In the latter part of the 19th century, then, surgeons had been liberated from the age-old bogies of pain, pus, and hospital gangrene.

Writer describes the end of the game as a contest to see who could make the fewest bogies.

Immersed in the sartorial plight of Akaky Akakyevich, lost in the wide, snow-white, windy avenues of St . Petersburg unaware that one day he was to dwell in a snowy place himself, Ashoke was still reading at two-thirty in the morning, one of the few passengers on the train who was awake, when the locomotive engine and seven bogies derailed from the broad-gauge line.

He has raised the bogie of "privatisation", striking a nationalist chord with many Mexicans.More significantly, he appears to have reasserted his grip on the PRD.

He had a second-class sleeper, in the seventh bogie behind the air-conditioned coach.

JIm Furyk has given up his share of the lead with a bogie on Number 9. David Lynn now alone in the lead at minus-4.

So let's say our price bogie is about $17,000.

David Lynn gave one back with a bogie on Number 10. — JEFF BRADLEY And…Tiger Woods is in the fairway off the first tee.