Example Sentences

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The belt turns the camshafts that open the engine’s valves and can cause major engine damage if it fails.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2021

The next hut over is stuffed with parts - steel wheels, choke rods, flywheels, camshafts.

From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2016

A product of the muscle car culture of suburban Queens, Mr. Cuomo is a chassis-and-wax aficionado who likes to tinker with camshafts and keeps a framed photograph of his sky blue Corvette on his desk.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2011

Still, that arena of pistons and camshafts can be just as fascinating as any other arcane craft, which is what drew me to Wayne Harrison’s new novel, “The Spark and the Drive.”

From Washington Post

All Liberty camshafts were cooled slowly from carbonizing heat and hardened by a single reheating to a temperature of from 1,380 to 1,430°F. and quenching in water.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)