Sentence examples for lacking an engine from inspiring English sources

These cars were nicely restored and well documented, but one was lacking an engine.

There is no way to warm the plane — another consequence of lacking an engine — so the two pilots, who will spell each other during the long flight, will wear socks with heaters in their soles, Mr. Enevoldson said.

The Coast Guard said it had picked up the nine after Japanese fishermen spotted their vessel — a 24-foot boat lacking an engine and any kind of roof — in waters near the port of Wajima on the north-central coast of Japan.

It sold at the low end of its presale estimate, possibly because it lacked an engine.

Theirs is not a real houseboat because it lacks an engine and cannot move from the dock on its own power.

Lancia lacked a production engine large enough to base a racing engine on, leaving the company to turn to outside sources.

Rootes realised that the Alpine needed more power if it was to compete successfully in world markets, but lacked a suitable engine and the resources to develop one.

However, the RAF lacked a four-engine bomber with adequate defensive protection which could carry heavy bomb loads to German targets.

It lacked an internal-combustion engine, but from behind the wheel and from outside the car it was, quite simply, normal.

The 26-year-old is the kind of all-rounder – not a pure sprint specialist while lacking the engine to be a grand tour domestique – who struggles to find a role at Sky, and he knows the Giro offers openings in the hilly Italian terrain when the faster but far heavier sprinters such as Marcel Kittel of Germany will get left behind.

Military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer only said, "It's just a prototype lacking new engines and a new radar".