brake

Example Sentences

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Recharge: Drivers can recharge their battery with energy recovered from braking, or on throttle lift at the end of the straights or in corners where only partial power is applied.

From BBC

The theory is that they do not mesh with Hamilton's style of late braking and pitching the car into the corner.

From BBC

If chip or biopharma outfits slam the brakes on new plants, or politicians decide to “review” fabs and exports, the order books won’t crash so much as quietly stop returning your calls.

From MarketWatch

“It looks real because they shot it for real — all those little camera operations, adjusting to a stunt performer braking to go around a car — then we made it a visual-effects problem.”

From Los Angeles Times

Few - if any - were as good as him at balancing extreme braking with corner entry speed without compromising the exit.

From BBC