How to Use in/into gear in a Sentence

in/into gear

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• Huber puts his hand on the car's shifter, as if to put it in gear.
  — CBS News, 6 June 2023
• Taking it task-by-task and day-by-day will get your home in gear in no time.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2024
• Entanglement in gear is one of the biggest threats to the whales.
  — Darlene Superville, ajc, 1 Dec. 2022
• The adapter overrides the EV’s safeguard and allows the driver to shift into gear.
  — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 1 Aug. 2024
• However, the man still quickly put the car in gear and pulled out of the parking spot, according to the video.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile, the Blue Jays need to get their offense in gear, having scored only 14 goals over the past two games.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2024
• Or maybe a roundup of inspiring morning routines to help get yours in gear.
  — Sherry Walling, Fortune Well, 15 Aug. 2023
• As the record began to pick up steam, his label Warner Bros. Records kicked into gear to nurture the song’s growth.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• Basically, this is your sign to get your butt in gear before the planets do it for you!
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
• Early debates are held over the summer, but campaigns kick into gear in the fall.
  — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024
• But no one can be certain that the IPO market, which is vital to the whole ecosystem, can click back into gear.
  — Damian Garde Reprints, STAT, 3 Jan. 2024
• Drivers are also urged to check to make sure that their cars cannot be shifted into gear without a foot on the brake.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• In the reel, guests, dressed in gear reminiscent of that decade, danced gleefully, as did the birthday girl, who was dressed like the ladies from TLC.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 9 July 2024
• Your heart kicks you into gear during today’s grand earth trine.
  — USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
• By the time festivals reemerged from the pandemic in 2022, Brexit had kicked into gear.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
• The main philosophies at play in backpacking can be boiled down to minimalism: in gear and in action.
  — Diana Helmuth, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2023
• The company paused work on a foldable iPhone in 2020 but kicked it back into gear more recently.
  — Kyle Barr / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
• Music kicks in gear, but the atmosphere is in everything.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2024
• On a monthly basis, rents grew in 57% percent of markets as the high season for leasing kicks into gear.
  — USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• But just as preproduction kicked into gear in South Africa, the omicron variant reared up and forced scouting to end.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• Each cell’s circadian clock, a complex of proteins whose levels rise and fall with the sun, clicked into gear.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Singleton found a hole, then put it in gear at the second level after the defense sold out on a cover zero blitz.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2023
• Much of the relief on inflation came from supply chains getting back into gear.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
• That’s about 15 degrees above average for the date and continues to help kick early spring into gear around here.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
• That happened more than once Friday afternoon, when the sun peeked through the gray, the breeze picked up and the familiar U.S. Open really kicked into gear.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• That’s when the Americans threw it into gear, outscoring Australia, 25-11, in the second quarter and never looked back.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Instinct tells us to stab the brake and clutch pedals, but in the Model T, pushing the clutch to its middle position puts it in neutral, while pinning it to the floor would keep you in gear.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2022
• No less a pundit than former President Barack Obama warned Democrats not to lose their cool as the post-debate spin kicked into gear.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
• According to the investigation, Chambers opted to jump and grab the railing wearing as much as 48 pounds in gear.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2024
• Detroit endured a slow start but has kicked into gear in recent weeks, most notably their Week 6 demolition of the Dallas Cowboys.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024