MOTOR in a Sentence

Learn MOTOR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

74 example sentences for MOTOR, such as:

1. We need a motor of one horsepower.
2. That's a nice motor you've got, Dave.
3. She threw a motor robe over her, ran out.
4. Kids get routed through the shop like a motor.
5. A washing machine is run by a small electric motor.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOTOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
motor
 n.  a machine that supplies motive power for a vehicle
 v.  travel in a car or a boat
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  Only when she was in the motor car did she distinguish the three people who were to accompany them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  The roaring of a tested motor; a racket which beat at the nerves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  The street was cluttered with electric-light poles, telephone poles, gasoline pumps for motor cars, boxes of goods.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Sam Clark had been talking to Carol about motor cars, but he felt his duties as host.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  They were sound and conservative in politics, but they talked about motor cars and pump-guns and heaven only knew what new-fangled fads.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  When the snow was too deep for his motor he went off on country calls in a shiny, floral, steel-tipped cutter, only his ruddy nose and his cigar emerging from the fur.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  A honking, a shout, the motor engine raced before it was shut off.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  The snow was too thick and the ruts frozen too hard for the motor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  She threw a motor robe over her, ran out.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  And, uh, well, I could go to the motor show, I suppose.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  She discovered that, despite the enthusiastic young writers, the drama was not half so native and close to the soil as motor cars and telephones.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  She stared at the passing motor, at Kennicott and the girl beside him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  I'm to go to Washington as a dollar a year man for the government, in the aviation motor section, and tell them how much I don't know about carburetors.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  Kids get routed through the shop like a motor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  She was equally irritated, when the motor returned through Gopher Prairie, to find that she was proud of sharing in Bresnahan's kudos as people waved, and Juanita Haydock leaned from a window.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Now that oil is scarce, the fate of the motor car is uncertain.
2  These days it seems we must all submit to the tyranny of the motor car.
3  Someone in the workshop ran away with the design drawing of the new motor.
4  Blind children tend to be more passive in this area of motor development than sighted children.
5  Centrifugal machines are connected to the motor drive directly instead of through a gearbox.
6  You are advised to read the small print of household and motor insurance policies.
7  A washing machine is run by a small electric motor.
8  We need a motor of one horsepower.
9  That's a nice motor you've got, Dave.
10  Pulsating magnetic field PM low speed synchronous motor is a type of PMSM with novel structure.
11  The fuse blew as he pressed the button to start the motor.
12  The foreign guests were motored to the guest house.
13  They spent a pleasant afternoon motoring through the countryside.
14  These magazines cover all kinds of popular subjects such as motoring, gardening, photography and sports.
15  Unlike the familiar blood alcohol tests in motoring cases, urinalysis does not demonstrate that the employee is impaired by drugs.