horsepower
Example Sentences
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“We want to make sure that however high in horsepower we go, we still make the product affordable, with enough volume to drive some level of scale,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The outboard horsepower explosion started about 20 years ago, when bigger boats typically had engines set within the hull.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
"What we've done is taken two of our 74 horsepower engines from our construction machines, we've laid them on their side and we've turned the power up," Lee Harper, chief engineer at JCB, explained.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Demand may also need time to catch up with that extra datacenter horsepower, while macro cycles are still an important consideration.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
John Glenn weighed only 186 pounds, but we needed one-quarter million pounds of rocket fuel with thrust equal to 3.5 million horsepower to lift him into space and get him safely home again.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
