The driver sits on top of this plane upon a seat constructed over the small, noiseless radium engine which propels it.
But it cannot drive the water back without pushing forward on the ship at the same time, and this forward push propels the ship.
Just as a horizontal screw propels a vessel forward, so a vertical screw will propel it downward.
Thy heart no one can tear out of my breast, it propels my best blood and never canst thou misunderstand me, let me be as unknowable as I will!
Those of the left ventricle, however, are both stronger and more numerous, more fleshy and muscular, because the left ventricle requires to be stronger, inasmuch as the blood which it propels has to be driven through the whole body.
In like manner, when the right ventricle contracts and propels its charge of blood, the pulmonary artery is distended at the same time with the other arteries of the body.
The speed at which the airplane travels at first propels the bomb forward, almost as if it had been shot from a stationary gun.
There is a young man standing in a row-boat, which an old fisherman lazily propels here and there before my eyes.
Stipa spartea) with grains bearing a stout twisted awn, which, by coiling and uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep.
Defn: One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.
The swimming forms have thin edges which have a wave-like motion, and this, together with a lateral movement of the tail, propels them through the water.
Through the funnel the animal expels water from the mantle cavity, and thus propels itself through the water.
The left side propelsthe red blood; and the right, the dark.
A thin layer of dirt beneath the wheels of an electric car can prevent the current which propels the car from passing to the rail, and then back to the power-house.
The force A is resolved into forces B and C, of which C propels the boat on the line of its axis.
Because the spreading out of the toes of the bird brings the membrane between the toes into the form of a fin, or water-wing, by striking which against the water, the bird propels itself along.
This force fills the sails and propels the vessel with amazing swiftness wherever she is steered.
The reason the otter's trail is so formed, is that the animal, when travelling through deep snow, progresses on its belly and propelsitself principally by its hind legs, especially when going down hill.
The feet are webbed to the tips, and though the reptile mostly propels itself through the water by means of its tail, it can also paddle itself gently along by means of its feet.
The mask propelsit close to the window, and the detective sinks into it, with a long drawn sigh.
He restores the packet to his pocket, having selected the proper memoranda, and then without rising, but with a jerking movement of the knees and elbows, he propels his chair toward the table near which Alan is still standing.
The occurrence of hair, of a four-chambered heart which propelswarm blood, of mammary glands, and of other systematic characters marks this species as a kind of mammal and not as a vertebrate in a section by itself.
This is explained when we remember the diminished force that propels the portal blood.
One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
