Example Sentences

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The ocean’s rise-and-fall against the boat, the stillness of the creeks once they’d left the ocean and ventured into its streams, running engineless, paddling to save fuel.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2023

As you sit down in an engineless pod the size of a bus, your seat remembers you and adjusts the entertainment settings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2015

The engineless aircraft landed in silence, the only sound the hum of a nearby helicopter.

From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2015

These days, he leads a small crew fixing up a Pratt-Read PR-G1 Glider, a light, engineless aircraft that seats two.

From Washington Times • Aug. 27, 2014

The train was at this time engineless, but presently a railway "flier," painted a glowing vermilion, slid modestly down and took its place at the head.

From Men, Women, and Boats by Crane, Stephen