Sentence examples for set a speed from inspiring English sources

If you're not trying to set a speed record, these preparations are all easy enough.

"If you set a speed limit that's too low, most drivers are simply going to ignore it".

She could go up Aconcagua twice if she wanted, maybe even try to set a speed record.

"I felt fairly relaxed all the way round as I wasn't really trying to set a speed record like I have in the past.

At 70, he set a speed record — for driving backward, reaching 60 miles per hour at Lime Rock Park, the track he helped build in Connecticut.

PAGE D7 RACING TO THE TOP AT YOSEMITE Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama set a speed record on the Nose in Yosemite National Park, the most famous route on the most famous wall in the world's rock-climbing Mecca.

Richard Branson crossed the English Channel in an Aquada in 2004, setting a speed record for amphibious vehicles in the process.

She has made the trek four times, more than anyone else in the world, and she once went solo, setting a speed record in the process.

In August Curtiss won the Bennett Trophy by setting a speed record of 47 miles per hour.

Furthering this analogy, Dr. Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, told HuffPost that a 2-degree threshold is comparable to setting a speed limit of 70 mph.

In 1974, hoping to reduce fuel consumption, Congress set a national speed limit of 55.