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

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