Sentence examples for gunned the engine from inspiring English sources
"Righteo, then," he said, and gunned the engine.
The driver gunned the engine and off we went.
My mother stopped the Rabbit, gunned the engine, and hoped the momentum would take us up.
I gunned the engine, the Expedition leaped forward, and we raced across the sand.
He gunned the engine a couple of times, in case I wanted to say anything else that needed drowning out.
He cranked in the line, to keep the barge on a tight leash, then climbed back to the flying bridge and gunned the engines.
Let's not forget what was surely the smile on those hijackers' faces as they gunned the engines on our passenger planes to kill as many Americans as possible in the World Trade Center.
The pilot gunned the engines, raised the gear, and up we went.
Jovanovic writes that when recording what Peter Buckley in his Rough Guide to Rock terms the "snarling guitar rock" of the first album's "Don't Lie To Me", the band, deeming conventional instruments inadequate for the task, wheeled two Norton Commando motorcycles into the studio and gunned the engines to intensify the song's bridge.
Dressed like a fluorescent Nanook of the North, I jockeyed my Polaris 700 over the Continental Divide and gunned the 120hp engine.
