Sentence examples for smooth starts from inspiring English sources

Later, spring buffers were introduced, with screw couplings that permit two vehicles to be brought together so that buffer faces just touch, giving smooth starts and stops.

In the A8L, these included a touchy throttle that works against smooth starts; one-touch window switches that never performed as expected; and overcomplicated audio and climate controls.

The lever is placed a bit too far rearward for ideal shifting, and the clutch's iffy take-up requires practice for smooth starts.

In the nineteen-eighties, engineers in Sendai, Japan, incorporated fuzzy logic into the design of the city's new subway, using it to program the system's famously smooth starts and stops.

In the T-Rex, smooth starts are small badges of honour, and because fate has a sense of humour, the best ones invariably occur when nobody is watching.

It did not get off to a smooth start.

A smooth start to the tax-filing season is already endangered, lawmakers and I.R.S. officials say.

The smooth start and easy finish helped disguise some in-between pocks on the Giants' performance.

Even so, this was a nice, smooth start to our solving week.

Sarah O'Boyle didn't have a smooth start to her new job as headteacher at Galton Valley primary school in Smethwick.

But he attributed the relatively smooth start to the society's experience in working with troubled children.