Sentence examples for drives instead of from inspiring English sources

Some had motorcycle engines and chain drives instead of transmissions.

By utilizing comb drives instead of parallel plate transducers, frequency tuning is controlled solely using joule heating through the crossbar while electrostatic spring tuning is negligible in comparison.

Many people hop the train, but others get on the Taconic State Parkway, a road clearly meant for leisurely Sunday drives instead of a high-speed commute.

However there are premium packs (with 32GB hard drives instead of 8GB) complete with Mario Kart 8, Super Mario Maker, Splatoon or Super Smash Bros.

The prototype ultrabooks on show at IDF 2011 used solid-state drives instead of spinning hard-disk drives, and offered battery life in excess of six hours.

Phil Weber, D'Antoni's top assistant, saw something else: Lee was "a yanker" — meaning he yanked his wrist back too far on his windup, shooting line drives instead of parabolas.

The Police Interceptor utility, however, would present a different driving experience for officers, in that they have full-time all-wheel drive instead of rear-wheel drive; front-wheel drive is available as an option on the Interceptor.

Perhaps they will drive instead of fly off to vacation.

You can now use a portable USB drive instead of a floppy disk.

Except there was one slight problem: Newegg sent us a PATA drive instead of a SATA drive.

Introduced in the fall of 2007, the Eee had a four-gigabyte solid-state disk (a "flash" drive) instead of a hard drive, and it ran Linux instead of Windows.