opposed-cylinder

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(of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane

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How to use opposed-cylinder in a sentence

Thirty-six percent were in favor and 38 percent were opposed.
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Only two senators opposed the resolution, which the administration later claimed was the authority for a full-scale war.
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The group puts out most of its statements—on its Twitter feed, or its numerous websites—in Arabic, as opposed to Baluchi or Farsi.
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The NRA opposed a new California law that will help prevent gun deaths, homicides and suicides both.
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Try 21 times more likely—31 per million as opposed to 1.5 per million for whites.
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On the contrary, the full meaning of the act is manifestly opposed to such an idea.
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My mother opposed her vow to his; not to suffer her child to leave her, till the time of her being professed.
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It was strenuously opposed by all possible means, governmental, legislative, and literary.
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Massna wished at all hazards to continue the fight on the morrow, but his principal officers were strongly opposed to it.
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At any rate, whatsoever that curious reservation meant, the majority of the staff were opposed to surrender.
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