Sentence examples for engine broke down from inspiring English sources

The tugboat engine broke down twice.

He drove for 10 km [six miles] and then the engine broke down".

We nearly died; the engine broke down in the middle of the sea and we were stuck for 24 hours, waiting for it to be fixed.

Also on Friday, Indonesian fishermen rescued 43 Sri Lankans who had been adrift in a boat for nine days after their engine broke down while trying to reach Australia to seek asylum, an Indonesian police captain told The Associated Press.

"They got all the publicity," said Lowell Lytle, owner of Lady Barbara, an 80-foot galleon from St . Petersburg Fla., that has been docked at Pier 84 since its engine broke down on the Fourth of July.

One man named Yusuf, identified as a Sudanese asylum seeker, told the ABC he and his wife had joined more than 40 people on a boat in Indonesia and reached a small island off the coast of Darwin before the engine broke down on New Year's Day.

Using digital replicas, GE offers its customers new services such as predictive maintenance, which helps them plan for maintenance before a critical part of the engine breaks down.

For example, the line of cars and trucks produced in a year would be so long that the last car could not drive to the front of the line before the engine breaks down.

If the airflow into a jet engine breaks down, the jet can burp back the air it has been ingesting, known in the jet engine world as a "surge".

"Unfortunately, we are currently in the stage of the Model T Ford ontology, where the engine breaks down every few minutes, and so anyone who wants to drive an ontology needs also to understand what ontology technology brings and how it is supposed to do this," Smith, who is a co-founder of the OBO Foundry, writes by e-mail.

They were among 475 people airlifted to safety one by one from the Viking Sky mainly in darkness after her engines broke down and she drifted perilously close to rocks in a stretch of shallow water known as Hustadvika.