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diesel engines

n. (diesel engine English)

Usage examples of "diesel engines".

It's just that I keep thinking it won't be any use, all my new track and all your new furnaces, if we don't find someone able to produce Diesel engines.

His chief machinist cut off the diesel engines and ran to the escape ladder.

Grace Kelly saw a lot of trains, mainly diesel engines, but even some old coal-burning steam engines that had come out of storage in order to keep the weapons and supplies coming north.

The fox had at least looked into the woods to the east, probably listened for the sound of diesel engines, but heard nothing but the chirping of birds.

The air was still hot and mixed with the exhaust from the diesel engines.

She was powered by three V-12, turbo diesel engines that thrust her across the water at a top speed of 70 knots.

With the coming of dawn, the Army of God started its diesel engines and renewed its drive south.

The cranes stood still, their diesel engines idling while their operators sipped their coffee or lit up smokes.

Merchant later discloses that the yacht has four turbocharged diesel engines connected to water jets that produce a total of 18,000 horsepower and enable the eight-ton craft to cruise at one hundred and twenty kilometers an hour.

The shuttling pencils on the fan-fold paper showed nearly identical marks, the thin traces on the 1000Hz line indicated that Prairie-Masker systems were in use, and similarly faint lower-frequency marks denoted the use of marine diesel engines.

There was a roar of diesel engines and the grinding of gears as, one by one, the equipment drove in and disappeared from view.

As a regular U-boat plunges through the waves, thick black smoke spews from its diesel engines.