Sentence examples for engage the engine from inspiring English sources

Oh yeah, the lanyard: a red coil with a ring on the end, which I slipped over a knob to engage the engine.

Less obvious are such additions as the transmission system, which is used to transfer power from the engine to the rotor, tail rotor, and other accessories; the clutch, used to engage the engine and transmission with the rotor; and the mechanics of the rotor system itself.

Wellington engaged the engine and, as the boat moved away from the dock toward a dark-green channel in the pale shallows, Japanese truck horns blared farewell.

Listen to see if the starter is engaging the engine and not dragging or spinning.

BBC Worldwide has taken a stake in Claimed and Shamed producers Curve Media after chief executive Tim Davie said he had "re-engaged the engines" on investing in production companies.

BBC Worldwide has taken stakes in companies before such as comedy specialist Big Talk (which is now owned by ITV) and drama company Left Bank (which is majority owned now by Sony) but Davie said he has "re-engaged the engines on this" but with "a specific brief" and is " pushing through a number of deals … we're ambitious in the UK, we're going to build our capability".

But like the Volt, if your daily drive is less than 40 miles or so, and you don't engage the gas engine's assist before recharging, you may use no fossil fuel at all.

They are now finding it difficult to engage the new engines of growth – China and other emerging powers – in global co-operation in the absence of genuinely global institutions.

To shift gears on a manual transmission motorcycle, you must engage the clutch, throttle the engine, and adjust the gear shifter.

Although engaging the gas engine is easy enough, I seldom felt the need.

What they said: "At start-up and extremely low speeds when fuel efficiency is low, such as when driving the car into a garage, the rear electric motor is primarily used, which allows driving without engaging the gasoline engine.