Sedan stopper

Usage examples of brake.

So I ask you again, when the owner of that defective car gets into it and drives over Gough or Franklin streets, knowing those streets are extremely unsafe for cars with faulty brakes, and then injures or kills someone when the brakes do fail, do you advocate that the driver not be held accountable for his reckless, despicably antisocial behavior?

As an arrowy serpent, pursuing the form Of an elephant, bursts through the brakes of the waste.

So, even though braking would not be required until the ship reached the balk line ten days hence, Gorgas ordered the Flip when they reached the median of the grand secant and hosted the traditional meal that very evening.

But asking a twelve year old boy to clutch a balky brake lever as a wagon slips and slides down a cliff totally amazes me.

With his foot on the brake, Barton turned the nose of the Packard down and began to descend.

It is social, yet not averse to solitude, singing often in groups, and as often by itself in the furze brake, or on the briery knoll.

With a parting smile, he stepped forward, grasped the doorknob, and thrust himself through to Earth, bringing up his right hand to brake against the wall.

Sergeant Brool was braking his speed and turning so that he would land tail fins first.

Ross stowed his share of the dynamite more cautiously, unlocked the brakes, put the bulldozer in gear, and backed across the square.

Langdon reached the exit of the park, he swallowed his machismo and jammed on the brakes.

Colonel Manesh lowered the flaps and applied full throttle, still keeping his feet against the brake pedals.

Satisfied that the brakes were operating properly, Manesh released them and the 39,000-pound craft bolted forward, leaving behind the safety of the concrete shelter.

And the mellay that was stayed while those lords dealt together in single combat brake forth afresh in that place.

Todd had been killed five years later when a newsie airtruck had lost its emergency brake on a hill while Todd was loading it.

The original complaint had alleged that Herb Hall, a truck driver, had suffered severe burns and been rendered a paraplegic when the sixteen-wheeler he was driving for a hauling company had lost its brakes on a downhill grade.