How to Use diesel engine in a Sentence

diesel engine

noun

• Ford added a diesel engine to its F-150 and rolled out the midsize Ranger.
  — Tom Krisher and Dee-Ann Durbin, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• The four-cylinder gas and diesel engines were, well, fine.
  — Kyle Hyatt, Robb Report, 24 June 2024
• Getting the diesel engine to run hotter was the tricky part.
  — Byian Mount, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
• As the diesel engine thrums below decks, the laptops come out.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• Two battery units of 90KVA are set up on trucks, which are charged by a diesel engine.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2022
• Things got even weirder in a Tahoe with the available 3.0-liter diesel engine.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 29 Mar. 2021
• But instead of the roar of a diesel engine, the cab filled with the gentle hum of an electric motor.
  — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
• It can be used for almost any new or old diesel engine.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• The batteries are charged by the diesel engine, which needs oxygen to run.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2019
• The Porsche Panamera and the Porsche Cayenne already had ditched their diesel engine options.
  — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2018
• The crew-cab pickup gets a 6.7-liter, 8-cylinder diesel engine.
  — Nathan Bomey, ajc, 28 Sep. 2017
• The company's first love, diesel engines, died on the vine in the emissions scandal.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2018
• Diesel Drivers will send a convoy of diesel engines around a short track.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2018
• On a recent trip, the diesel engine rumbled and the exhaust fan whirred and whistled.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2022
• Chevrolet added the diesel engine to its compact-class Cruze sedan last year and added the five-door hatchback for 2018.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The sound of church bells and the clatter of feet on cobblestones, even the foreign purr of a diesel engine, calm your synapses.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2017
• The recall is to replace fuel pumps in trucks with the 6.7-liter Cummins diesel engine.
  — Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2021
• Fire officials said the first crews on the scene found a diesel engine engulfed in heavy flames just southwest of the bridge with freight cars on the bridge.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2024
• Frost Town occupies the same footprint as the old diesel engine repair shop that had stood there since the 1970s.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 27 June 2022
• It will still be called Amarok, and a diesel engine will continue to be offered.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2020
• The standard engine will be a 6.2-liter V8 while, for the first time, a diesel engine will be offered as an option.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 4 Feb. 2020
• Some states are using the funds to buy more (albeit cleaner) diesel engines.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 11 July 2019
• The 68 green-zone buses also mark the end of Muni’s reliance on all-diesel engines.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• The cab became very quiet as the diesel engine cut out and electric motors took over.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• At the intersection, Taggart was met by a cacophony of screams, the growl of the diesel engine and the blaring of the SUV’s horn.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
• When an electric train gets stranded, a diesel engine goes out and rescues it.
  — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
• Mercedes-Benz notes that this is the first time the automaker has paired a diesel engine with a plug-in hybrid system.
  — Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2018
• At its core, the drinking bird is a heat engine, not that unlike a steam turbine or diesel engine.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2018
• Almost 20 years later, in the parking lot at the city garage, Kelsey fired up the truck's big, Caterpillar diesel engine.
  — Neil Johnson, Star Tribune, 31 May 2021
• Davis said that passengers and operators of the train don't hear the new diesel engine running.
  — Danya Bacchus, CBS News, 29 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024