As a means of recreation a small dinghy driven by a low-powered engine offers great possibilities.
The high-powered vehicle purred smoothly as it took a long, rising curve.
The high-powered vehicle he was driving purred smoothly as it took the long, rising curve.
The intrepid girl was seen leaping from the seat of her high-powered car to the cab of a passing locomotive, her chagrined pursuers in the distant background.
Merton Gill here saw that he must learn to drive a high-powered roadster.
She had missed the train, but had at once leaped into her high-powered roadster and made the journey at an average of sixty-five miles an hour, braving death a dozen times.
Xavier's voice, a mellow drone from the helihopper's Ringwave-powered visicom, cut sharply into his musing.
Certainly no atomic-powered ships were built after the wars--our records are complete from that time.
The entire Italian fleet of submarine chasers consists of high speed, high powered motor patrol boats, most of which were equipped with American made motors.
The armored motors have high-powered engines, and the chassis chosen for these new instruments of war are of the heaviest types.
Many steep hills would be encountered, but none that would present great difficulty to a moderate-powered motor.
John crouched under a bush, and with the muzzle of his high-powered rifle turned upward, continually sought a target through the leaves.
All three of them carried the modern, high-powered rifle which could kill at a tremendous range.
He remembered with some consolation that the modern, small, high-powered rifle bullet, unless it killed, did not do so very much harm.
The modern high-powered rifle carried far, and he judged by the faintness of the reports that the bullets had been fired from a point several hundred yards away.
Lower and lower it dropped and it came within easy range of the high-powered rifles.
They wanted to make some improvements on the old molecular ray pistols, and to develop atomicpowered heat projectors for hand use.
There were four guards armed with pistols, which, they discovered later, were powered by compressed air under terrific pressure.
Here they heard the soft purring of a large oscillator tube and the indistinguishable murmur of smoothly running AC generators powered by large contraterrene reactors.
The arrangement provided a much higher powered unit in the cheapest and quickest manner, and one that could be expected to operate satisfactorily with the least development.
Whatever their reasoning, they selected for their first powered flight the exact form of prime mover that continued to power the airplane until the advent of the aircraft gas turbine more than forty years later.
This is a thoroughly-modern, diesel-powered all-pullman train.
Then they got a battery of high-powered physicists up on the stands to prove that nothing else but a rocket could have driven the thing that way.
He's got two big atomic-powered DC generators aboard--says they have to be DC to avoid electromagnetic effects.
One of the essentials of a high-speed sea-going vessel is high-powered machinery.
Lucky a trader needs an atom-powered tractor that can move at night.
To the latter he now attached his full-size, sun-powered ionic motor.
When Frank examined the sun-powered tractor, he found that tiny platinum plates had been taken from the thermocouple units.
It was, as I could observe, some type of a high-powered rifle.
It sounded to me like it was a high-powered rifle.
One, the matter of time, and secondly the fact that I did not have facilities in the area where I was working for the collection of such tests from a high-powered weapon.
An electric motor, powered either from the REA line or from direct current stored in a bank of wet cell batteries, bulked large in the small shed.
From Moscow came word of a one-hundred-ton spaceship to be launched in a few days, poweredby a mixture of vodka and orange juice discovered by a bartender in Novorosk who was studying chemistry in night school.
The network television camera crews trained their own high-powered lights into the yard to add to the brilliance of the military lights and began recording the scene.
The exigencies of Arctic travel make it further desirable that small craft be capable of propulsion under paddle, oars, sail, or low-powered gasoline motors.
It was plain he didn't know what a high-powered drink he was trifling with.
There are many ways of getting out of this place and at one of them I hare a high-powered car.
The monoplane was light in weight and could fly faster with the same powered engine than the biplane.
So severe is the strain of constant scanning of the enemy's territory through high powered glasses that it was found necessary to draw the observation balloon down about every two hours in order to change observers.
But with high-powered engines oak is very generally employed on account of its strength.
Each was powered by one of the engines, transmitted to it by heavy rubber belts.
Ours are powered like that, but we cannot operate them when the Venerian wind is blowing.
The hookup would be powered by the solar battery in the hydrolung power unit, by connecting wires through the breathing tube.
It had an enclosed central rotor, powered by atomic turbines, with reversible-pitch blades for air lift or undersea diving.
This mammoth, atomic-powered airplane had been Tom's first major invention.
And von Herrnung, who had brought a Wireless outfit, had busied himself in picking up messages from a low-powered installation at the German Embassy and transmitting them to Somebody, high in authority, who waited at Berlin.
To the eye of a skilled observer hovering hawk-like in the hot blue heavens, raking the streets through high-powered Zeiss binoculars, nothing human remained alive in this Aceldama.
All railways stations are being watched, all highways patrolled by our agents, travelling in high-powered motor-cars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "powered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
