Sentence examples for without a spark from inspiring English sources

Then, a tiny bit of fuel is injected into the combustion chamber, where the compressed, heated air causes it to explode without a spark plug.

Food and Drink has just returned from the vault, for example, and what a zombie of a programme it is, vaguely reminiscent of the original but without a spark of life.

The very fact of pulling off "Boyhood" deserves praise, but the movie's absurd sentimentalization of childhood and adolescence, its vision of a boy and teen without a spark of ferocity, without an evil thought, without energies to tame or impulses to master — without any wildness at heart — could satisfy the old studio system.

After all, as the great Springsteen lyric puts it: You can't start a fire without a spark".

I'd gone out on a few dates with these men in the past - dates without a spark.

Resistive "Touch Me First" grounding pads let users drain off any static charge they've accumulated without causing a spark or a shock.

The game fizzled out for me without much of a spark.

Dan Simmons looks at whether the technologies being developed to recharge devices without wires is a spark of genius or merely a flash in the pan.

Nothing is achieved without first a thought, a spark, a mental itch.

"Obviously, the freedom he enjoys without Amar'e has been a spark," Matt Kamalsky of Synergy Sports said.

Martinez's side, without the injured Ross Barkley, lacked a spark after the interval and he will know this could be two important points cast aside in the race for a top-four place as Everton remain sixth.