How to Use gearshift in a Sentence

gearshift

noun

• Shifty: The gearshift is the first item that’s hard to find.
  — cleveland, 11 Apr. 2020
• The truck’s gearshift was in drive and the keys were the ignition.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
• The car’s engine was running, the gearshift was in drive and the man’s foot was on the brake.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2022
• Police opened the truck door, placed the gearshift in park and removed the keys.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
• The steering wheel and gearshift knob are leather-wrapped.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 10 July 2020
• Switch the gearshift to the shiftable side, and a Sport light comes on and the nice car gets a little peppy.
  — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 7 Oct. 2017
• The gearshift lever has less travel than the 356's, is smoother, and requires no more effort.
  — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
• The gearshift itself is a large knob for big Jeep-owner man-paws to handle.
  — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• The set also comes with a gearshift knob from the Razor Crest spaceship, which can be placed in Grogu's hand.
  — Sarah Toscano and Jennifer Maldonado, EW.com, 22 June 2023
• Without the need for a gearshift lever or a clutch, the Kalk has hand controls only, with the rear brake on the left and the twist throttle and front brake on the right.
  — Ty Brookhart, Outside Online, 25 June 2018
• The gearshift linkage is clunky; the single brake discs on the front and rear wheel are undersized and overmatched.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• At the center of business is the padded aircraft-style gearshift lever, flanked by two smaller levers.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• Even more carbon is found inside, in the form of a gearshift cover, door and dash accents, and paddle shifters.
  — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2018
• The Hyundai also retains the skeuomorphism of a Start button and physical gearshift stalk to the right of the steering wheel.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 5 May 2022
• Not long after Jan drove away from her family, her car’s gearshift cracked off.
  — Gina Barton, jsonline.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• The shiny black plastic around the gearshift—shared with the 2-series Gran Coupe—feels particularly cheap.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 2 Dec. 2021
• The clutch was light and smooth in its take-up, the gearshift for the five-speed ZF ‘box surprisingly light and the steering surgically precise.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2021
• The steering wheel is also new and the gearshift is relocated to the steering column to free up space in the center console.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 26 Mar. 2023
• The Emira's gearshift had a better weight and feel than the loose shifter of the Evora, but the linkage often seemed to snag on changes across the planes of the box, especially the shift from second to third.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2022
• Andrei handed me the controls and dove into the driver’s seat, jamming the key in the ignition and raking the gearshift into drive.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
• Remember taking that curve and being pressed into the driver’s side door or gearshift.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
• But midway through the second race, while enjoying a modest year-over-year improvement from 14th to 11th, the gearshift on Fogel’s bike breaks.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• The primary evidence police had to go on was blood on Michelle's dress and on the car's gearshift that in 2005 was finally identified as male DNA.
  — Alec Sirken, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2020
• Inside, the gearshift folds down flat so the center stack can unfold into a useful flat surface (above) for a laptop, notepad or a table for a bag of burgers.
  — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• That didn’t prevent her from joining the French Ambulance Corps and driving a manual-gearshift ambulance right up to the front lines.
  — Catherine Musemeche, WSJ, 22 July 2022
• The normal heater, controlled by a small lever just forward of the gearshift, has outlets ahead of each door (which can be closed—or adjusted—by sliding covers), at the base of the windshield, and at the rear window.
  — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
• So there's a big tonal gearshift between some of the darker scenes in the show and then scenes like when the Deep's trying to save a dolphin from Oceanland and accidentally ejects it through the windshield of his car.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 24 June 2022
• Use of the feature is selected by double-clicking the gearshift into Drive after selecting the Pure driving mode on the central screen.
  — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 18 Mar. 2022
• The company says the Santa Fe now offers nicer soft-touch materials, and the gearshift adopts a pushbutton layout.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 3 June 2020
• However, the smoothness gained off the line is traded for a mixed bag of sometimes-abrupt gearshifts, especially when the drive mode is in more aggressive settings.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024