Hand Brake

Word HAND BRAKE
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The word "hand-brake" in example sentences

With the screech of a hand-brake turn, Europe's auto stocks have reversed course on fears of another recession. ❋ Matthew Curtin (2011)

"I thought it was very African to have a story within a story, but some of the producers were worried it might hand-brake the drama," said Brook. ❋ Tracy McVeigh (2010)

Only a short while ago she was wholly against the idea and has thus performed a massive hand-brake turn on the issue which damages her as well as at the same time damaging McStalin by indicating that she no longer feels bound to toe the Westminster party line. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The carriage was an open one with two double seats, and in front a single one for a messenger; it had also a hand-brake attached. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unless, as I once had to, you attempt it without a functioning hand-brake. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Machievellian pacifism, for sure, but if they can complete the hand-brake turn before the election it may save them a few seats. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The polls reversed with all the elegance of a hand-brake turn and instead the Tories, who had spent the summer wretchedly aiming a series of pot shots at their feet, suddenly looked as though they had turned into a bizarre collection of Eeyores gathered together for one purpose only, to make the Labour Party electable once more. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Secure in my meteorological superiority, I raced from the subway and cut westward along Twenty-second Street, doing my best imitation of a car in a video racing game: tailgating dawdlers, applying an imaginary hand-brake for sudden turns. ❋ Andy Greenwald (2006)

About 10 kilometers from Cathcart the driver pulled up the hand-brake and, during the ensuing struggle, the driver disarmed the suspect. ❋ Unknown (1997)

It had an emergency hand-brake which locked both wheels. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1987)

The men from the Criminal Identity Department were searching for fingerprints on the doors, the steering-wheel, the hand-brake and the gear-lever. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1972)

Schaffer wound down the driver's window, released the hand-brake, engaged gear and jumped out as the car began to move. ❋ MacLean, Alistair, 1922- (1967)

The seasoned section-man, however, was on his feet and at the nearby hand-brake in a twinkle. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)

He examined a new cut in one of my tires and loosened my hand-brake a notch. ❋ Various (N/A)

A regulator, injector, and a hand-brake were placed at each end, so that the engine driver could always stand in the front, whichever was the direction in which the engine moved; and there was a platform of communication between the two ends, carried along one side of the boiler. ❋ Various (N/A)

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