Sentence examples for it conks out from inspiring English sources

It can carry on for nearly 100 miles on a full charge, though in the bitter Norwegian winters, he concedes, it conks out much sooner.

It can't be hurried – especially not sourdough, which brings the added palaver of making a starter to use instead of yeast, keeping it alive, panicking about it being dead, and feeling bad if it conks out because you already gave it a name.

If you driving a fabulous Jaguar across the desert and it conks out, who do you need in the seat beside you?

(It conks out if not returned after a certain distance, and a locator device will allow Keolis to track it down).

It conked out in 1999, got clogged up with fluff from being carried around in my pocket.

"We went early to the stadium to try it out, but it conked out," said Stram, who will analyze Sunday's game for CBS Radio, with Jack Buck.

I don't know who the comedians were who Don was watching on TV when it conked out, so please let me know below the line.

A ferry from Muscat – my preferred choice – promised to be a fine and slothful way of arriving, except it conked out on my visit.

New Jersey's bear biologists would have preferred to get there first, shoot the bear with Ketaset, put it in a pickup after it conked out, and take it to Kittatinny before it woke up.

Before it conked out due to electrical problems in 2007, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys took one of the first ever images of a planet around another star, a dot orbiting Fomalhaut, and it had become the foremost instrument on or near the Earth for investigating dark energy, the strange effect that is accelerating the expansion of the universe.

That's right: the actual number of potential Earths is closer to 40 billion -- that's one in every five stars, just in our galaxy alone -- with that number possibly much higher (Kepler is reportedly very sorry it conked out too soon to tell us more).