How to Use gearbox in a Sentence

gearbox

noun
  • For instance, the car’s eight-speed gearbox is all the way in the back.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And, like the engine and gearbox, the carbon is all in-house.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Idle is not one of the speeds in Jackie Chan's gearbox.
    Alex Pappademas, GQ, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The Graziano gearbox is sort of in-between stick shift and a double clutch.
    Mike Jordan, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The power is sent to the rear wheels through a new eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 26 June 2020
  • In the Porsche, the slick gearbox is more important than the engine.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The line’s have to be shut down so crews can replace the 35-year-old gearboxes.
    Patrick May, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • With a few laps to go, Rosenqvist was right on Dixon's gearbox.
    Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 28 July 2019
  • The gearbox that was removed will be rebuilt and kept as a spare.
    Cicero Estrella, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Mash the throttle and the F-Pace leaps off the line as the gearbox cracks off each successive shift.
    Michael Harley, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The gearboxes control the cables that pull the cars along their routes.
    Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Both of these send that power to all four wheels via an eight-speed gearbox.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The pedals are offset and tightly packed in the footwell, but the Tremec gearbox shifts smoothly, even when the oil is cold.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The rear-wheel-drive coupe with the seven-speed gearbox (standard across the GTS lineup) weighs 3,192 pounds.
    Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The team says the new mill can produce in excess of 304 horses, which is sent to the rear wheels via a five-speed transaxle gearbox.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The gearbox is quicker to downshift in Drive and holds onto gears longer.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The motor drives the front wheels through a single-speed gearbox; all-wheel drive is not available.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 7 Nov. 2022
  • These are jet turbines that turn a propeller at the front of the engine via a gearbox.
    The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • The engine itself has been turned 180 degrees to squeeze in the gearbox and e-motor.
    Jeremy White, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Power-wise, the car is fitted with a 5.0-liter V-8 mated to a five-speed ZF gearbox.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2021
  • All of the new XC60s will be equipped with all-wheel drive and a slick eight-speed automatic gearbox.
    Al Haas, Philly.com, 16 June 2017
  • The gated gearbox is a novelty feature that takes a while to get used to.
    Trinity Francis, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The manual gearbox is an endangered species at this point, outsold by EVs in the U.S. since the end of the last decade.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Our only gripe with the close-ratio gearbox is that the shift from fourth to fifth requires you to move the lever quite far to the right to find the fifth and sixth gear plane.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Some quicker and smoother shifting in the gearbox was what would have made our test drive a lot more reflective of the way the car looks.
    Kyle Edward, Forbes, 9 May 2021
  • To be a cyclecar, a vehicle had to have a gearbox and clutch.
    Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 27 May 2024
  • The rate at which the weight-transfer box moves is dictated by a five-speed gearbox that's driven off the drag's wheels.
    David Beard, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2021
  • One complaint is that the gearbox isn’t as smooth to shift as hoped for with a motorcycle of this price.
    Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The open-air C8 will run the same transmission as the coupe — Chevrolet’s first eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox.
    Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2019
  • In its base spec, the Commodore Ute was fitted with a 3.8-liter V6 and a four-speed auto or five-speed manual gearbox.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

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