Sentence examples for gears down from inspiring English sources

Middle level a voice is yelling in his ear, turn left and look for the purple X. Abruptly the music gears down to a meat-grinding crawl, kah-thunka, kah-thunka, it is a trash compactor mulling over more than it can chew.

Then again, in wide-angled turns where you can just toggle the gears down and leave that V-8 churning at around 4,000 rpm (go ahead, skip the ABC), the SL is hard to beat.

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".

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.

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.

"As the old chestnut has it," Mr Fallows recalls, "there are two kinds of retractable-gear pilots: Those who have forgotten to put the gear down, and those who will".

The airplane was lined up to land, with the landing gear down and the wing flaps lowered, investigators said, and the crew had also turned on the runway lights, which can be controlled from the air.