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Example sentences for "motorcycle"

Lexicographically close words:
motorable; motorboat; motorboats; motorcade; motorcar; motorcycles; motorcyclist; motored; motoring; motorist
  1. As Chug whizzed about Chippewa's streets, ringing an unnecessarily insistent bell, you sensed that a motorcycle was already looming large in his mechanism-loving mind.

  2. By the time he was seventeen Chug's motorcycle was spitting its way venomously down Elm Street.

  3. Some time between Chug's motorcycle and the home-made automobile Len Scaritt died.

  4. Directly a motorcycle for every man was wheeled up to the door.

  5. Well," pointing to a portion of his machine frame which he had been careful not to touch, "here is some of the dust which fell upon the motorcycle then.

  6. Lead your motorcycle noiselessly up that rise of ground," he directed, "and when you get there keep your eyes wide open.

  7. The motorcycle owned by, or in charge of, Jimmie also showed a similar mark, and this, too, was photographed.

  8. In other words," replied Ned, "I'm set up on a motorcycle as a mark for the diplomats of Europe to shoot at.

  9. He did not understand why he had been instructed to make the trip to Peking on a motorcycle when there were easier ways, but he was quick to obey orders.

  10. During the next two or three hours the boys found two old motorcycle engines, a power lawn-mower motor, and one old gasoline-powered washing machine.

  11. Under the direction of Al Miner, who was the best qualified to plan the alterations of the ventilation ducts, they made the necessary changes and installed one of the motorcycle engines to drive the blower.

  12. If we act fast we ought to be able to pick up some old motorcycle engines or some power lawn mowers from the dump.

  13. Lately he had been running back and forth on his motorcycle between the lines and points south in a region which had not been defiled by the invader, but now he was going far into the West "for service as required.

  14. Tom Slade, motorcycle dispatch-bearer, had always regarded the villages he rushed through with a kind of patronizing condescension.

  15. His trusty motorcycle which had borne him so far stood beside him, and as he steadied it, it seemed as if this mute companion and co-patriot which he had come to love, were sharing his utter dismay.

  16. For Uncle Sam, notwithstanding his name, was a French motorcycle and had never seen America.

  17. Did you think I took that journey to Barville on your old motorcycle merely for recreation?

  18. The motorcycle swerved into Hooker's yard and nearly ran Springer down.

  19. The motorcycle was standing in the carriage house, causing Rackliff to wonder a little.

  20. In the carriage house he stopped, his undershot jaw drooping; for the motorcycle was missing from the stand on which it was always kept, when not in use.

  21. I caught this rotten cold riding a motorcycle back here from Clearport after the game last Saturday.

  22. You'll find riding my motorcycle better than walking.

  23. The popping explosions of an approaching motorcycle greeted Phil's ears as he walked on, and up the street came a chap astride such a machine, the lamp of which had not yet been lighted.

  24. In this he was not mistaken; Hooker was puttering over his motorcycle by the light of a lantern.

  25. A long belt the same width as the motorcycle belt was used to drive the machine.

  26. Driving a Washing Machine with Motorcycle Power [219] The halftone illustration shows how 1 rigged up my washing machine to be driven by the power from my motorcycle.

  27. The motorcycle was lined up and the engine started, then the motorcycle belt thrown off and the long belt run on, connecting the engine and washing machine wheel.

  28. Kenneth found, for the first time, that it required a fair amount of physical energy to restore a fallen motorcycle to its normal position.

  29. If the wounded Uhlan preferred to be jolted about on a motorcycle rather than be properly attended to in an ambulance cart, it was his affair.

  30. It took two hours' hard work in the blazing sunshine for Kenneth and his Belgian friend to set the motorcycle to rights.

  31. The man on the motorcycle came into the repair shop while we were there to have something done to his engine, and he listened with interest while we were telling the repair man how we had run into the limousine in the fog.

  32. But I heard them tell a young fellow that came in to get his motorcycle looked over that they were going to Chicago.

  33. Halfway to Chicago, Nakwisi, who was keeping a sharp lookout with her spy-glass, reported that there was a motorcycle chasing us about half a mile behind.

  34. But the rider evidently had more caution than we generally credit to motorcyclists and made no attempt to pass us, so we were not treated to the spectacle of a man and a motorcycle turning a somersault into the lake or sprawling in the marsh.

  35. He had waited around Rochester simply on our account; there had been nothing the matter with his motorcycle at all.

  36. We knew that it would not be long before the man on the motorcycle would find out that we had escaped and would take the road after us, and we must not lose a minute.

  37. He leaned the motorcycle against the porch and came up the steps, and as he did so I recognized the light-haired young man that had been in Rochester when we were.

  38. As we stood there looking at the curious scarab in Nyoda's hands a motorcycle putt-putted past in a cloud of dust and we recognized our light-haired friend apparently leaving town.

  39. As I stood there I saw a speck coming down the road which gradually grew to the proportions of a man on a motorcycle exceeding the speed limit by about ten miles.

  40. The last glimpse we had of the house where the tourists were "took in" was of a motorcycle leaning up against the porch.

  41. He was on foot, from which we judged that he also had some time to kill while his motorcycle was being fixed.

  42. The fellow next door to us bought a motorcycle and got it started and couldn't stop it again and he whizzed up and down the city until the gas gave out, and there were eleven policemen chasing him before he got through.

  43. Little travel away up here, and along the side where it's smoothest they've gone single file, following the motorcycle of Ward, I guess.

  44. By this time Ward on his motorcycle was abreast of the camp.

  45. His head, as he landed in the roadway, struck a stone, and the motorcycle itself pinned him to the earth by its weight, one of his arms doubled up in an alarming fashion, as he lay there completely senseless.

  46. Without speaking he hurried from the store and got the motorcycle under way.

  47. He was examining the motorcycle and still sputtering that the swine should be left to rot.

  48. Despondently Dean clambered off the motorcycle and crossed to read a placard on the ferryhouse.

  49. Two other persons, two of his most intelligent operatives, Thomas Dean and Jane Strong, had set out on a motorcycle to shadow them.

  50. There came a thud and a crash as the forward part of the Hoff car struck the motorcycle a glancing blow, overturning it completely.

  51. As the old man mounted the motorcycle and sped away Frederic sprang from the car, and approaching the spot where Dean's body lay, began making an examination of his injuries.

  52. Fortunately the glancing blow that it had struck the motorcycle had done no more damage than shatter one of the lamps and bend the mud guard.

  53. He spoke to a cloud of dust, for Dean had started up the motorcycle before he finished speaking and already was speeding away.

  54. She was still puzzling over her unruly heart when they reached Getty Square, and Dean brought the motorcycle to a stop in one of the side streets overlooking Broadway.

  55. Almost immediately a man on a motorcycle dashed upon the scene and with difficulty stopped in time.

  56. Roadside Inn" was pointed out just across the street, and rolling his motorcycle beside him he walked over and went inside.

  57. I have twelve motorcycle men out on the job, and three high-speed roadsters.

  58. The girl had guessed at the first glance that the man on the motorcycle was a police officer.

  59. She could hear the staccato reports from the open exhaust of the motorcycle diminishing rapidly in the distance, indicating the speed of the pursued and the pursuer.

  60. As he did so a man on a motorcycle drew up on the opposite side and peered through the window.

  61. Two boys on a motorcycle ditched their wheel a hundred yards away and crept cautiously up.

  62. This left Glen to ride the motorcycle alone.

  63. Coming up on the motorcycle a minute later Apple saw the car disappearing around a turn in the road, and wildly chasing it a puffing, panting old man, brandishing a heavy club.

  64. You must come with me to see the sheriff, or perhaps you'd better go alone on Henry's motorcycle to save time.

  65. The motorcycle stopped and the boys jumped off.

  66. But he enjoyed the ride and waved to several of his young acquaintances as the motorcycle sped through the town and then out upon the country road.

  67. The hours crept by with leaden feet for Ding-dong until the chugging of Pepper’s motorcycle was heard soon after supper.

  68. The motorcycle began to hum along roads that grew wilder and less inhabited.

  69. Your motorcycle will carry two, won’t it?

  70. Bob and Betty ran down to the road to see him as he stopped his motorcycle with skillful abruptness.

  71. The lad on the motorcycle had no time to waste in arguing.

  72. And that's all I know," said Jack, finally, when he had carried the tale to the point where Harry rode off on the repaired motorcycle in pursuit of Ernest Graves.

  73. Once or twice he did find someone in the streets of a village as he swept through; then he stopped, and asked if a man on another motorcycle had passed ahead of him.

  74. He had no motorcycle of his own or he would not have ridden away on Dick's machine.

  75. In the tool case on his impounded motorcycle Harry knew there were condensed food tablets--each the equivalent of certain things like eggs, and steaks and chops.

  76. He didn't even know where the motorcycle had been stored for the night.

  77. Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer Tom is now a dispatch rider behind the lines and has some thrilling experiences in delivering important messages to troop commanders in France.

  78. I knew that road went to Rheims because when I was in the Motorcycle Service I knew all the roads.

  79. I am wondering whether you can be the same Tom Slade who was in the Motorcycle Corps in France?

  80. At the airfield Soames laid the motorcycle beside the edge of the clear area, and left Fran with it, to wait.

  81. Fran turned on the motorcycle headlight as he'd been told, and picked up the apparatus Soames had made to use strobe-light packs in.

  82. A motorcycle escort surrounded the car with drawn curtains which carried the children from Idlewild into New York.

  83. The battered, ancient motorcycle took them into the night.

  84. He stopped the motorcycle where the road was empty.

  85. He gave the motorcycle all the gas it would take and went racketing up the truck-road from the chasm below the dam.

  86. He bought a second-hand motorcycle at ten o'clock in the morning.

  87. At midnight Soames got his motorcycle out of the woods and onto the highway.

  88. He went two miles on and into forest, dragging the motorcycle out of sight from the road.

  89. He immediately borrowed Frank Bowman's motorcycle and hurried over to Middletown before the banks closed.

  90. On returning the motorcycle to the civil engineer he took his courage in both hands and said: "Mr. Bowman, would you do me a great favor?

  91. Or did you see a motorcycle officer come up?

  92. And then the thing that happened then was a loud shot--first I thought they were saluting the President, somebody--even maybe a motorcycle backfire.

  93. From the time I got off the motorcycle we walked the first time and then we kind of run the second time from the motorcycle on into the building.

  94. Do you remember how far that was from the place your motorcycle was parked to the doorway?

  95. After you were graduated from the Dallas Police Academy, did you right away become a motorcycle policeman or were you first a patrolman or what did you do?

  96. And you stopped your motorcycle 10 feet to the east of that stoplight, is that correct?

  97. Baker, a Dallas motorcycle officer who was present at the assassination scene; Mrs. Robert A.

  98. Officer Baker, when we were in Dallas on March 20, Friday, you walked over with me and showed me about the point you thought your motorcycle was when you heard the first shot, do you remember doing that?

  99. Well, between the time you revved up the motorcycle had you heard any more shots?

  100. Well, at the time I was up there I saw a motorcycle policeman.

  101. A trooper on our side of the line heard a motorcycle about two o'clock yesterday morning.

  102. A few minutes afterward, the man at the filling station says he saw a man wheel a motorcycle out of the woods and ride past.

  103. I found tracks of a motorcycle on the ground a short distance away.

  104. The motorcycle tracks lead right up to this gully.

  105. That means that the man probably had his motorcycle parked in the woods, while he was waiting for Flynn to come home.

  106. The motorcycle had been to me the most hateful of modern inventions, inexcusable, unmentionable.

  107. Arthur, do you remember how we stopped their motorcycle when those two officers were chasing us after we had escaped from the house where they had hidden the guns and the shells?

  108. It sounds as if another motorcycle might be coming from behind us.

  109. If those two who chased us when we ran off with their motorcycle saw us, they'd be able to prove it," said Arthur.

  110. There could be no doubt about it at all, now; the other motorcycle was rapidly making up lost ground.

  111. It's no joke to ride on a motorcycle with both tires gone.

  112. There, lying on its side, was the motorcycle of which the new arrival had spoken.

  113. They were just in time to see the motorcycle being ridden madly off; in time, too, to fire a couple of shots apiece from their pistols.

  114. From behind came two sharp explosions, and looking back, he saw the other motorcycle swerve and fall.

  115. The motorcycle leaped forward now, but from behind they could still hear the barking of the exhaust of the other machine, and the excited cries of the Germans.

  116. The worst roads I ever tried to push a motorcycle over!

  117. Motorcycle engines, therefore, under no conditions should be operated for more than 1 minute when motorcycle is not in motion.

  118. Make sure that tire pump is securely clamped to motorcycle frame.

  119. Foot pedal is located on right side of motorcycle at forward end of footboard.

  120. Pedal is located on left side of motorcycle above footboard.

  121. The rider must acquire correct motorcycle engine starting habits, and learn to do the job the quickest, easiest, and most dependable way.

  122. The following pointers will be helpful to the beginner as well as to a seasoned rider: (1) Mount (straddle) motorcycle to obtain firm grip on handle bars.

  123. Motorcycle starts should be made without excessive application of power, with consequent unnecessary spinning of rear wheel.

  124. Rider will be mounted on motorcycle with engine running.


  125. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motorcycle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bicycle; bike; bus; chauffeur; chopper; cycle; drive; entrain; iron; machinery; motor; motorcycle; pedal; pig; ride; taxi; wheel