How to Use emergency brake in a Sentence

emergency brake

noun

• Watched him yank the emergency brake and open the door.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2019
• Put the car in Park and firmly set the emergency brake.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 4 Dec. 2020
• Set your emergency brake and take your foot off the brake.
  — The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023
• Then the wheels came off, and there was nobody on the Wolves who could find the emergency brake.
  — Chris Hine, Star Tribune, 29 Dec. 2020
• Police said one of the brothers helped steer the bus over to the side of the road but could not get to the emergency brake.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• There’s an old-school truck brake for the emergency brake.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2019
• No one can pull the emergency brake or hand out Chick tracts.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2022
• When stopped, turn off your lights, set your emergency brake and take your foot off the brake.
  — Michael Donohue, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
• In the seven seconds before the crash, the crew sounded the horn, flipped the throttle to idle and hit the emergency brake.
  — Matthew Haag, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• If driving a car with a good, strong emergency brake, go ahead and use it.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Dominguez hit the emergency brakes, but a four-hundred-ton train can’t stop quickly: the train skidded to a halt over the man and the dog.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018
• The engineer saw the vehicle and applied the emergency brakes but was not able to stop the train.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• His valuables and money were not stolen, and his car was on and in gear with the emergency brake deployed when his body was found.
  — Traci Rosenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
• Set your emergency brake and take your foot off the brake to keep your brake lights from activating.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021
• The relative stability in stocks in the past 24 hours helps those who don't want to pull the emergency brake.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 20 Mar. 2020
• The dispatcher was able to call 911, help the boys set the emergency brake, flashing lights and emergency stop arm.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• The driver, who was seriously injured, managed to slam on the emergency brakes and bring the train to a halt.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
• But the truth is, even though the coronavirus pulled the emergency brake and forced the city to a screeching halt, New York soon lurched right back into motion.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2022
• The wheel bearing failed as crew members tried to slow the train down, Homendy said, and the derailment triggered the train's emergency brakes.
  — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2023
• One wrong move—an emergency brake not set right, Fluffy shifting her weight just so—and the vehicle could have crashed into the ravine.
  — Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023
• But several high-speed crashes in testing saw the series fit an emergency brake to the rear.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 July 2023
• If this doesn’t work, shift to a lower gear or, if need be, pull your emergency brake up gradually.
  — Time, 12 Aug. 2021
• Then, a Texan named Jim Allison came up with what seemed at the time to be a radical notion: that the car had its emergency brakes locked.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2017
• The woofer was wearing a leash, and investigators believe it got caught on the emergency brake and released it.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2022
• Crew on the train, traveling from Tacoma to Everett, spotted the man and hit the emergency brake while sounding the train whistle, Melonas said.
  — Jim Brunner, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2018
• Scott Walker, who was elected to Lee Sheng's at-large council seat, said the pandemic threw the emergency brake on a lot of initiatives.
  — Faimon Roberts, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2021
• Some were alarmed by the train’s breakneck acceleration and screeching stops, but none pulled the emergency brake.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• The train's emergency brake was activated after crews said an alarm went off, according to the NTSB.
  — Alex Presha, ABC News, 16 Feb. 2023
• The train's emergency brake was activated after crews said an alarm went off.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
• Also covered in the $395 course is emergency braking with ABS systems.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 31 July 2019

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024