parking brake
Example Sentences
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Both the parking brake and auto-hold were in working order, but had not been applied, he added.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
The automaker is recalling more than 870,000 F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. to fix the electric parking brake.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Investigators concluded that had Renner set the parking brake, the snowplow would not have rolled forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
Police, worried about an attack or a bomb, closed streets, though they later learned a motorist had parked and simply forgotten to set the vehicle’s parking brake.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022
When she came back out she released the parking brake, threw the car into drive, and pulled away without looking over her shoulder.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
