Sentence examples for gears on a from inspiring English sources
An improbably compact mesh of gears on a wooden frame is an 1879 model of a paper-bag-making machine.
The only thing funnier than Zach Galifianakis grinding on a tractor is, erm, Morrissey grinding the gears on a tractor.
Silver-clad galaxy hoppers gaze idly through telescopes or space visors amid a Jules Verne fantasy world in which nothing is as it seems: The gears on a wheel are the teeth of a sawfish, hanging crystals of ice are glittering jewels and the spines of an alligator are polished white shells, which in turn resemble the skyline of a futuristic city.
Shifting up through the gears on a deserted English back road or climbing through the French countryside, rather than in the hot scrum of Indianapolis or Monza, the illusion can more easily take hold that you might one day be able to take a vintage Maserati 250F from 1957 for a drive.
The logo the administration created for the economic recovery program is not only red, white and blue, but green too: it shows white stars on a blue background, white gears on a red background, and white leaves on a green background.
An eminent oeno-critic — the latter-day counterpart, perhaps, of Sellers' Greatest Taster Alive — leaned over to me and remarked: "Vintages of a specific chteau are like the gears on a ten-speed bicycle.
The lifespan of these "working-capital" accounts will dictate how much grease you need to keep the gears turning on a short-term basis.
During a routine ride, his gears jammed on a downhill slope.
Jingoistic songs played on the radio, and dark jokes circulated ("How many gears on an Egyptian tank? Five: one forward, four reverse").
The airline found a fracture in a cylinder in one of the three legs of the landing gear on a plane in Oslo during a check of its MD-80 fleet, it said.
Some may even take up arms a sure recipe for disaster, both human and economic.An abundance of young people is like gearing on a balance sheet: it makes good situations better and bad ones worse.
