engine
Example Sentences
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Apart from the electronic fuel ignition and other digital bits, this engine is practically identical to the beast my father winched into his Ford F-100 pickup in the 1970s.
The sugar industry, the engine of the economy since colonial times, is now in tatters.
He wanted to be like the train guy in the book, and drive an engine, and wear a blue-and-white striped hat.
From Literature
The money was left in perpetuity by the art philanthropist and founder of the travel search engine Cheap Flights, Hugo Burge, who died in 2023 aged just 51.
From BBC
They tell a story of a society under acute economic stress, where the old engines of growth have stopped working.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
