Sentence examples for gear down from inspiring English sources
verb
To arrange a system of gear wheels or pulleys etc such that the driven part rotates or moves slower than the driving part
It takes a day or two to actually gear down".
"She told me that, as far as they could tell, they weren't able to get the landing gear down".
Within the first 500m it was obvious that both crews had decided to gear down and feel each other out.
So we hired a lorry, drove all our gear down to Figueres and recorded it in three weeks".
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The pilots rely on checklists to make sure no steps are skipped; they use "callouts" — "Gear down, flaps fifteen" — to insure that everyone is paying attention.
On the open road, it happened occasionally when we were gearing down, mashing on the accelerator, stepping on the brakes, going downhill, or going uphill.
The first Sister was a quadriceps-burning warm-up; we geared down, but managed to stay seated until the last 50 yards.
Quickly gearing down to humble the mountain, we rolled on up past blossoming apple orchards.
Meanwhile, Ford is gearing down production of Escape anyway to introduce a new version later this year.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Linda – having completed a marathon last year, she's gearing down by training for a mere half marathon.
