Sentence examples for getting the engine started from inspiring English sources

"There's an adrenaline going, especially before we actually fly, checking out the plane, getting the engine started.

"The past decade has just gotten the engine started, and it's going to take off from here".

"We got the engine started, but we couldn't get it to keep running".

To get the engine started, she would sometimes have to tap the power button repeatedly.

"The engine started running rough," he said.

The engine started spraying oil in Birmingham, Ala.

Several weeks ago, I heard President Clinton offer solutions at the World Business Forum on how to repair our broken economy, create jobs and get the financial engine started up again in America's middle class.

"It is not unknown for a ship's engine to malfunction – I have been at sea several times when the main engine has stopped," says Stott. "This then becomes a situation with significant potential for danger to life and property and the engineering crew will be working very hard to get the engine re-started".

The "no" engine started roaring again.

The first step is to force-feed All-Star center Roy Hibbert (pictured above) in the paint and see if he can't finally get his engine started again.

But he added that they could also be highly temperamental, telling of crews that joked about leaving a bag of Skittles in them overnight to placate the "gremlins," and of rubbing the nose and sweet-talking a plane with promises of a flight to Hawaii when trying to get an engine started.