the rev
Example Sentences
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"We just heard this squeal, the rev of an engine and a huge, loud impact," Kimberly Stricklen, a visitor to New Orleans, told Reuters.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2025
Text alerts go out instantly to Tembé patrols when Google’s cloud computing detects the rev of a chainsaw.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2022
How do you make sure the rev split is equal?
From The Verge • May 17, 2022
But the CR-V’s turbocharged engine develops peak torque earlier in the rev range, and the continuously variable automatic transmission keeps it in the sweet spot more easily.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2021
A great number of our authoress's poems still continue unpublished, in the hands of the rev.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus
