Sentence examples for like a steam engine from inspiring English sources

"I sew like a steam engine while I plan my works of art," she wrote.

But like a steam engine, it can belt along the track at a heck of a rate.

One is that because, like a steam engine, a Stirling is an external-combustion engine, it can run on a variety of fuels.

Suddenly, Zena, from Left Tusker's family, came barreling in from the southeast like a steam engine, aggressively forcing Wynona's family away from not only the prime drinking spot, but the entire water hole.

Baker's main interest then was playing the bassoon, an instrument that originally appealed to him because he thought it looked like a steam engine and that he grew to love because of the beautiful middle-range melodies it could produce.

Madero's narration comes in the form of clipped, kinetic diary entries: "Depressed all day, but writing and reading like a steam engine"; "I'm reading the dead Mexican poets, my future colleagues".

Oh, oh, oh, oh!" Her screams were so exactly like the whistle of a steam engine, that Alice had to hold both her hands over her ears.

After a year of weekly all-nighters, something began to occur to me: that my faithful reporting, the automatic words I manufactured on tight deadlines, spitting and spewing them across the page like the soot off a steam engine, those words did their momentary job, then disintegrated with the newest spew of cinder.

Making an exit, she looked like the front end of a steam engine.

It also has models of old sports figures and old-style toys like a passenger train with a steam engine and coal car ($115).

"The piston of a steam engine worked monotonously up and down like the head of an elephant in melancholy madness," – Dickens on Manchester.