damper

Example Sentences

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But it rides on a brilliantly tuned air suspension with adaptive dampers to tie down rebellious momenta.

From The Wall Street Journal

Keep everything from the road-scanning camera on the front bumper—which allows the adaptive suspension dampers to respond to the road predictively—to the hidden hatch button in the rear wiper.

From The Wall Street Journal

The setting and main character’s lack of specificity might have been another box office damper at first.

From Salon

"And obviously the current administration has put a big damper on that."

From BBC

But a lot of music fans, this writer included, deal with disability, health and/or mobility issues that can put a damper on the typical festival experience.

From Los Angeles Times