fuel-injected
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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He plans to drop in a fuel-injected V-8 engine at some point, but these days Osborn, whose tattoos tend toward the nautical, is spending much of his time trying to convince working-class candidates to break into politics.
From Los Angeles Times
In the Seville, car buyers got a powerful, fuel-injected V8 engine, a pillowy interior, power seats and automatic door locks and windows.
From Seattle Times
Like smoke at a barbecue, the sawdust from the chain saw being used by Joe Stebbing seemed to follow me wherever I stood, as great clouds of pulverized tree erupting from his fuel-injected Stihl.
From Washington Post
But according to The Guardian, “modern fuel-injected cars consume proportionately more fuel when in neutral as they perceive the car to be idling.”
From Los Angeles Times
“The 1980s birthed the era of high-horsepower turbocharged fuel-injected racecars,” said Mr. Saito, who spent a decade working on cars.
From New York Times
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