Words similar to engine

Example sentences for: engine

How can you use “engine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I was disappointed with the speed at which the engine performed, for he, as did I moments before, searched the archeology section (though with perhaps a less well-adapted algorithm) and found nothing.
In addition, emissions inventories prepared for the Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine rulemaking were the basis for future year emissions projections.
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Fountain pen, dirt road, manual transmission, steam engine, hand-woven fabric, conventional weapons, general practitioner, natural childbirth, cloth diaper --these are backwords dating anywhere from the era of the jalopy to the nuclear age.
The answer has nothing to do with their cause, however, but with the simple fact that dictionaries are not exercises in bi-unique substitutability; in other words, if one of the senses of run is `operate' (as in She runs an engine factory ), that does not make it valid to assume that one can substitute operate for run in We run in the marathon every year . Although recognizing this as a shortcoming of dictionaries and assigning it arbitrarily to what, for lack of a better term, we might call the “genius” of the language, might seem trivial to the casual observer, it is a valid matter for concern in the realm of lexicology.