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Example sentences for "throttles"

Lexicographically close words:
throstles; throte; throth; throttle; throttled; throttling; throu; throuble; throubled; throubles
  1. He straightened the MTB out and rammed the throttles to full speed.

  2. Gradually he opened the throttles until, at a safe distance from the island, the MTB was moving at full-cruising speed.

  3. As scheduled, I pulled all the throttles to idle and then took them all the way up to rated thrust.

  4. His vision was gone, but just before losing consciousness he shoved the hydrogen throttles all the way forward and yanked back on the sidestick, sending them straight up into the freezing black above.

  5. Although his vision was still black and white, he started easing back on the throttles and checking around the cock pit.

  6. He rammed the throttles forward, clicking them into the Lock position, igniting the afterburners.

  7. The throttles of all kinds of animals,--chickens, sheep, and cows.

  8. Dawson grunted, and eased off the throttles as the Lightning fell off the stall and went whanging down in a dive to pick up flying speed.

  9. His lips went back flat against his teeth, and he swerved the Fortress more to the left, and eased all four throttles forward a bit more.

  10. Shouting and yelling at the top of his voice, he opened all throttles wide, and thrilled to the core as the propellers "bit" into the air and started pulling the Fortress forward faster and faster with every rev they made.

  11. Dawson said with a nod for emphasis, and eased back the throttles again.

  12. He leaped into the pilot's seat, grabbed the control wheel with one hand, hauled back on it steadily, and eased off the throttles with his other hand.

  13. They had been left over the Atlas Mountains, and the sun blazing down made Dawson's throttles feel like red hot pokers, despite the fact that he was some twelve thousand feet in the air.

  14. He had impulsively rammed both of his throttles wide open, and his aircraft was leaping forward like a shell leaving the mouth of a cannon.

  15. Impulsively, Dave opened his throttles so that he would not lose the Messerschmitt in the clouds.

  16. He didn't because he was pointing the long way of the desert strip now, and was ready to ram his throttles wide open.

  17. The pilot throttles the engines, and we begin to glide downwards.

  18. The pilot throttles slightly, and turns the machine out to sea.

  19. The pilot throttles the engines slightly, for we are getting within the range of these clutching tentacles.

  20. It has two venturi throats, in the center of which is placed the gasoline spray nozzle of conventional type, fixed size orifices, immediately above which are placed two panel type throttles with side outlets.

  21. His hands jabbed the throttles in and out with lightning rapidity, checking their further fall with one quick burst after another.

  22. At each such warning of the meteorometers, the pilot glanced quickly at their direction-dials and then touched the rocket-throttles to change course slightly.

  23. Then, throttles open, fire boxes throwing their red, spluttering glare against the black sky as firemen leaped to their task, the great mass of machinery moved forward.

  24. Dave shoved the throttles forward and the twin 1,150 hp.

  25. Chubby nodded that he had heard and eased back the throttles until the Pegasus engines were just a rumbling murmur.

  26. Dave instinctively reached for the throttles to take strain off the howling engines, but he checked his hand, and let the plane roar deeper and deeper into that blessed sea of darkness.

  27. Wiggins pushed throttles forward, and the two Pegasus engines roared up in a mighty song of power.

  28. Clay eased the throttles back and the engine noise softened to a muffled roar.

  29. Car 56 roared into the yellow and the instant Ben had it straightened out, he slammed all finger throttles to full power.

  30. The red emergency lights and the radio siren had already cleared a hole for him in the traffic pattern and he eased back on the finger throttles as the patrol car sailed over the divider and into the blue traffic lane.

  31. Niecks throttles every romantic yarn about the pair that has been spoken or printed.

  32. Rellstab, grumpy old fellow, was near right when he wrote of these variations that "the composer runs down the theme with roulades, and throttles and hangs it with chains of shakes.

  33. It will be proportioned so that when occasion shall require it can be operated with a steam pressure at the throttles of 200 pounds above atmospheric pressure under the before mentioned conditions of the speed and vacuum.

  34. Symmetrically arranged with respect to the center line of each engine are the six boilers in the boiler room, and the piping from these six boilers forms a short connection between the nozzles on the boilers and the throttles on the engine.

  35. The two downtakes to the engine throttles drop to the basement, where each, through a goose neck, delivers into a receiver and separating tank and from the tank through a second goose neck into the corresponding throttle.

  36. Lady Cicely takes herself by the neck and throttles herself a little to show how.

  37. Your scabs came in and took our throttles on the Reading--why shouldn't we pull your latches out here?

  38. Every ounce of his flying skill was in his fingertips as he nursed the throttles and got the plane to moving faster and faster.

  39. He simply concentrated every bit of his effort on taxiing the Messerschmitt away from the desert camp and "nursing" the throttles so they would get maximum power out of the engines.

  40. Arrived in the clear atmosphere above the clouds my pilot throttles down until the rear machines have appeared and re-formed.

  41. Dave shot out his hand and shoved the throttles of the P-Thirty-Eight's Allison engines wide open.

  42. When the last had touched earth, Dave and Freddy cut their throttles and slid down also.

  43. There he wheeled around into the wind, waited a moment or so for Freddy and Air Marshal Manners to come forward and join him, but when they didn't he opened up the throttles wide and sent the American built plane rocketing forward.

  44. He went through the small compartment door like a twelve inch shell, fell over the chief pilot's shoulder and rammed both throttles wide open.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "throttles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.