Example Sentences

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Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

This idea of being shape shifters in the industry was something that appealed to many of the designers they represent.

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

The resulting integrated circuit occupies a 0.13-square-millimeter footprint that is smaller than phase shifters yet nearly doubles the channel-capacity -- i.e., data rate -- of conventional wireless arrays.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

Still, he said, electric muscle cars won’t have manual shifters, and he’ll miss the smell of racing fuel at the track.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2022

It was the era of unfastened galoshes and the shifters club.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey