Sentence examples for instead of wheels from inspiring English sources

Modern mills employ pairs of steel cylinders instead of wheels.

These aircraft were all fixed-wing airplanes powered by some sort of bicycle, with pedals and gears spinning a propeller instead of wheels.

They bear names like Daddy Long Legs (which walks tall on telescoping legs) and Tetra (which rolls along on bowling balls instead of wheels).

Parked up in front of his house is a bright red 27-ton Case tractor which has tracks instead of wheels.

It is a hue that looks stunning in stiff canvas trimmed with burgundy leather and made into a valise outfitted with brass feet instead of wheels ($1,250 for the thirty-one-inch Packing Case).

The Brute is meant to appeal to the "overland" crowd — owners who take tricked-out, loaded-up Jeeps across deserts, through muddy bogs and even (when equipped with tanklike treads instead of wheels) over glaciers.

Modern passenger cars and some freight cars—have disc brakes instead of wheel-tread shoes.

The first helicopters were quite primitive, with skids instead of wheeled landing gear, open cockpits, and unaired fuselage sections.

Instead of wheeling around a dessert cart, Mr. Mudrone said, he would like to wheel out a multimedia laptop that shows the desserts on a high-resolution color screen.

Instead of wheeled landing gear, he chose air-cushioned feet, like those on a hovercraft, so that the ship could land on virtually any surface, and he installed reversible fans in the feet, which would provide suction and allow the ship to stay on the ground.

Developers chose fictional hovering bikes instead of wheeled motorcycles initially to resolve performance concerns.