Sentence examples for engine strain from inspiring English sources

Jim saw him spin his hand rapidly and pressed the throttle forward, feeling the Crusader's engine strain against the catapult, which would soon accelerate his plane from a standstill to 150 knots.

You may travel farther and up steeper mountains with less engine strain if you have got a diesel engine.

Idling at a red light, the 454-horsepower engine strains under us like some caged ogre.

The engine strained coming out of a rest area to merge onto busy Interstate 91.

I'M on the phone with a fellow automotive journalist when his end of the conversation is pre-empted by the raspy snarl of an engine straining toward its redline.

The map is huge, larger than anything Call of Duty has ever produced by several orders of magnitude, and you can see the engine straining to keep up.

The engine strained under acceleration, even in sport mode, and took a long time to get up to freeway speed.

But Dickies, the longtime maker of work wear, does just that in a new advertising campaign in which two motorcyclists, revving their engines, strain to tear apart a pair of its "Original 874" work pants that are suspended between them.

I saw myself sitting in a chopper, the engines straining to maintain altitude.

I do it the same way every time: front yard (where the grass is thickest and sometimes causes the engine to strain), side, then the back.

The engine was straining pitifully and I can only wonder what it must be like when it has a full load – as it was, including the driver, there were just three of us.