How to Use internal combustion engine in a Sentence

internal combustion engine

noun
Definition of internal combustion enginenext
  • The end of the road for the internal combustion engine in Europe is now in sight.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 June 2022
  • Around the world, cities and countries are starting to plan for the end of the internal combustion engine.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The same trend was seen with the internal combustion engine.
    — Mustafa Suleyman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The country will end the sales of internal combustion engine cars in 2025.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • His internal combustion engine is more than twice the size of yours.
    — Adrienne So, Wired, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The vocals may be gruff, but this makes a fine swansong for the internal combustion engine.
    — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
  • An internal combustion engine is loud and masks the noises a tire makes.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Much to our dismay, one of the greatest pony cars since the invention of the internal combustion engine now joins that list.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The days of the internal combustion engine are numbered.
    — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • For more than 100 years, the internal combustion engine (ICE) has been the mechanism of choice for vehicles of all shapes and sizes.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
  • And EVs need a lot of chips—easily twice as many as an internal combustion engine car.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 14 Oct. 2022
  • In Germany, the historic home of the internal combustion engine, plug-ins accounted for about a quarter of sales last year.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Aside from the low tax, what makes Europe attractive is the bloc’s decision to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine cars by 2035.
    — Laura He, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The car was just fine (and certainly goes from 0-60 miles an hour more quickly than my internal combustion engine).
    — WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Despite the lack of an internal combustion engine, the iX looks unmistakably like a BMW, massive black grille and all.
    — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Plus mode brought the battery to a 50-percent state of charge, which was enough energy to get me back home again without firing up the internal combustion engine.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Which is cheaper to own: An EV or internal combustion engine car?
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Under the new rules, people are prohibited from using a tool with an internal combustion engine -- such as a chain saw -- on such lands in the state.
    — Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN, 12 June 2021
  • Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, says the way the process has been structured can be compared to a car switching from an internal combustion engine to an electric one.
    — WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022
  • And that’s a good thing, given the XC40’s already positive record with an internal combustion engine under the hood.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Le adds that VinFast will stop producing internal combustion engine cars by the end of 2022.
    — Lan Anh Nguyen, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Picture a normal pickup truck: there’s a low box for the front third, where the internal combustion engine normally goes; a tall middle box for humans and dogs; then a low rear box for the bed.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The switch to EVs would be monumental on its own for GM, a company that has made a living largely on the internal combustion engine for more than 113 years.
    — Tom Krisher, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
  • The days of the new internal combustion engine are definitely numbered—at least in the European Union.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2022
  • But Hennessey isn’t giving up on gas completely: the last car in the plan, due by 2031, is expected to be powered by a pure internal combustion engine.
    — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Bears may be quick to dismiss Magellan due to its strong ties to the demand of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.
    — David Trainer, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • That’s a useful property inside an internal combustion engine, which uses tiny explosions to turn a crank that spins the wheels of a truck or the propeller of a boat.
    — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • One hundred years of transportation has been built on the internal combustion engine, and a century of expertise was built with it.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • After struggling for decades to match foreign expertise in the internal combustion engine, China has a real chance to put foreign brands on the back foot in the electric era.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021
  • This, of course, is because an internal combustion engine revs up to generate torque and accelerate.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2024

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