Sentence examples for propels from inspiring English sources

The word 'propels' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a force which moves something forwards. Example: The engine propels the car along the road.

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propels

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Third person singular of propel

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This ionic movement causes a flagellum (a small propeller) on the outside of the alga to begin rotating, which propels the cell towards the light, allowing it to photosynthesise better.

On the other side of the Atlantic employment is on the rise, while George Osborne propels a lost generation into a lost decade of economic growth.

Our surf instructor is delighted too and offers one of his many teaching metaphors on this trip to Byron Bay, describing the moment when you make the sweet spot of water that propels the board forward from the crest of the wave.

Her talent is obvious and there is something about her new direction that propels an idea of rebellion and control.

It propels the economy of whole communities along the migrant trail through Libya and countries like Sudan and Mali to the south.

On the other hand, anyone trying to combat trafficking, terrorism, or even the poverty that propels so many migrants on their dangerous journey north, needs to grasp the scale, the resilience and the daily importance of these networks in many people's lives.

The heavy industry that propels China's economy is largely absent from Guilin, which relies instead on tea, tourism and traditional medicines.

Not only is the current jumble of international rules and protectionist habits a mess, it propels countries and airlines into interim arrangements like "open skies" deals and alliances as ways of mitigating the legacies of a different age in air travel, but without dealing with the basic challenge of modernisation.Regrettably, any global change is likely to be made at the speed of the slowest.

The resulting "osmotic" pressure on the water propels it into the brine through the membrane.

GE says it has shaved 136kg, or 3%, off the weight of an engine that propels the Boeing 787 using a ceramic-composites fan case and blade, a world first.GE has also found a way to lighten metal components, including some for engines, by "printing" rather than forging them.

In the end it may be lust, rather than lectures from mom and dad, that propels them out into the world.

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