tank engine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The original test episode, titled Down The Mine, will appear online on Friday to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the famous tank engine franchise.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
Robin van Persie as Batman's sidekick, a tank engine and Jessie J?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012
With his hands full of plane engine production, Hives got an urgent request from Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook: Would Rolls make a new high-powered tank engine?
From Time Magazine Archive
Already Chrysler's engineering department and laboratories are working 85% of their time on defense, developing a 2,000 h.p. airplane engine, a 500 h.p. liquid-cooled tank engine; a new airplane landing gear strut, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had an oil tank, a water tank, engine housing, steering wheel, lockers.
From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.
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