cylinder

Example Sentences

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Their 1940 Fords had 200,000 miles on them and holes in the floorboard so they could pour fluid into the master cylinders.

From Los Angeles Times

The economy can’t fire on all cylinders unless manufacturers are participating.

From MarketWatch

But once you've lost shoppers, it's very hard to win them back, especially when many of your rivals are firing on all cylinders, helped by price matching and loyalty schemes, in an intensely competitive market.

From BBC

“That’s the nightmare scenario — that those things just happen more frequently and become more exacerbated when the agency is not firing on all cylinders,” Inge said.

From MarketWatch

He’s holding up some sort of metallic cylinder.

From Literature