petrol engine

How to use petrol engine in a sentence

• Bickerton found many odd jobs to occupy his time in connexion with the petrol-engine and the wireless installations.

  The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson

• At length the petrol engine stopped; I doubt if we did, though steak and onions now arrived.

  Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front | E. W. Hornung

• On water, rail, and road the petrol engine has entered into rivalry with steam—very successfully too.

  The Romance of Modern Mechanism | Archibald Williams

• The petrol-engine, as now used, emits the products of combustion at a high pressure.

  How it Works | Archibald Williams

• Instead of the electric engine used by the Tissandiers, he employed the small petrol engine out of a motor tricycle.

  Chatterbox, 1905. | Various