Sentence examples for turned on the engine from inspiring English sources

I waited a few minutes, took out my car keys, went downstairs, and turned on the engine of my BMW.

We played outside in our snowsuits, and then the sitter turned on the engine and the heat.

He then took his two victims to nearby Castlerock where he left the car in the garage of his wife's late father and turned on the engine.

Then she turned on the engine, turned up a Bob Marley CD, and steered her Reality out of Hempstead Harbor, toward home, into the last light of a perfect evening.

He took a loop away from the direction of the island, in order to get the wind at our backs, then turned on the engine and, despite his worsening sight, steered with unfailing instinct, because he had, he said, a map of the entire lake inside his head.

"Recently in this department I mentioned a group of Larchmont yachtsmen who, as a prank, turned on the engine of the sloop they were sailing… "It would have been unforgettable if Manny could have won by fair means after the elaborately foul ones he sportively resoted to last fall, when….

"I got into the car, and before turning on the engine I cried for, like, fifteen minutes, in front of my two children," he said.

The best way to get children always to use proper vehicle restraints is for their parents to buckle up themselves and for parents to insist that the children be properly restrained before turning on the engine.

Similarly, UPS trucks are functionally employee surveillance machines on wheels – they track everything from whether an employee puts her seatbelt on before turning on the engine, to how many times a driver brakes in traffic, to how many minutes are "stolen" when the driver uses the bathroom.

Insert the key into the ignition, and turn it forward slightly so that the car turns on, but the engine does not start.

"Getting in the car, turning on the engine, and not opening the garage door".