How to Use check valve in a Sentence

check valve

noun

• The fuel tank inlet check valve may not be fully welded to the fuel tank shell.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2020
• The inlet check valve weld may fail, allowing the filling pipe to separate from the fuel tank.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
• In heavy storms, the bypass serves as a sort of check valve to keep swollen rivers from over-topping the levees that protect Sacramento from flooding.
  — Ryan Sabalow, Dale Kasler and Benjy Engel, sacbee, 22 Mar. 2018
• Among the critical inspection points is the engine bleed air fifth stage check valve on some Boeing 737s.
  — CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
• Lockney points to the microbial check valve as a solid example of how NASA can assuage this issue.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
• That’s enough to provide strong engine response while the turbo gets up to speed, at which point a check valve closes and the turbo takes over from the electric supercharger.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2018
• These models have a piston that is actuated by the forend, forcing air into a cylinder fitted with a check valve that won’t let it out.
  — Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 2 Mar. 2021
• There is a vacuum check valve in the hose designed to maintain vacuum in the booster for brake application if the engine stalls.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• First, the source of moisture should be investigated and eliminated and then the check valve and hose assembly may need to be replaced.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Check the manual to see if the PCV valve is a check valve or some other method for metering manifold vacuum into the crankcase.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2011
• The company installed a new check valve to make sure the water flowed in the right direction and designed a new control system to prevent the problem from happening again.
  — Jessica Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2018
• Bleed Paths: Small orifices (006) with one-way check valves allow fluid to bypass the compression spool valve during rebound and vice versa.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
• Known as a check valve, it was made of titanium and designed to let material through in only one direction.
  — Samantha Masunagastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
• So far, the team has been working on replacing a faulty check valve on the rocket's upper stage that created a helium leak and repairing the source of a tail service mast hydrogen leak.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 May 2022
• The issue engineers identified over the weekend is a malfunctioning helium check valve.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Apr. 2022
• Check the manual to see if the positive crankcase ventilation system (or PCV) valve is a check valve or some other method for metering manifold vacuum into the crankcase.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2020
• Engineers identified a helium check valve that wasn't functioning.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024