How to Use hand brake in a Sentence

hand brake

noun

• The daughter shut the door and the father released the hand brake.
  — Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
• The other part of the problem was in the hand brakes themselves.
  — Dan Schwartz, ProPublica, 3 Apr. 2023
• The 33 cars with hand brakes left on were toward the head of the train, and 13 of those were empty.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• The new hand brake, on the left handlebar, is much like the ones on bikes, and will stop both wheels if pulled.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 14 June 2019
• Many ATVs only have a hand brake on the left handlebar for the front brakes, and a foot brake for the rear.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2020
• On arrival, pick out a bike after squeezing tires and hand brakes.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Although there’s a front hand brake on the left side, laziness made us coaster-brake converts.
  — Popular Mechanics Test Team, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2020
• The episode ends with a flashback to the accident, caused when Jamie pulls the hand brake to stop Nick from his manic speeding down the dark Dorchester back roads.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• At some point, the men tried applying the hand brakes to the rail cars, which destabilized the train and forced the conductors to make an emergency stop, Fox 8 reported.
  — Scott Berson, charlotteobserver, 12 July 2018
• The Landie also lacks that other rallying favorite: a hydraulic hand brake.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2021
• The thumb-lever brake on the first generation scooter has been replaced with a type of hand brake more commonly found on bicycles.
  — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 12 June 2019
• After passengers were evacuated, an attempt to tow the train to a rail yard resulted in it rolling 137 feet before a worker was able to apply a hand brake.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
• Unstoppable in the first quarter, Florida yanked the hand brake in the second only to see Alabama recover to get just enough to survive the offensive onslaught from the No. 11 Gators.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2021
• While strollers usually feature a convenient foot brake to keep your baby from rolling away, many jogging strollers also have a hand brake that's easier to use while running.
  — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2022
• Bernaski's Eeyore, whose large mouth is operated by a device that looks similar to a bicycle hand brake, is cuddly to the extreme.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2022
• The Pilot's other physical controls include an electric starter switch (a pull-start option is there for backup), a hand brake that's perfect for drift duty, and a shift lever with forward, neutral, and reverse gears.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 26 May 2022
• Endearing features include a manual hand brake, the refrigerator cool box in the big center console and the fold-down tailgate (with storage panels) and a soft-close feature.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• It is known as a bootleg turn or handbrake turn and competition drivers use it to their advantage, knowing precisely when to release the hand brake and accelerate.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• The brakes are completely electronic, unlike some other scooters that also include manual hand brakes or disc brakes.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2018
• Two bicycle-style hand brakes made decelerating dead simple.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
• Without the locomotive’s power, the train’s separate air braking system gradually lost its force, compounding the insufficiency in engaged hand brakes and setting the train free.
  — Ian Austen, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• As these flood back, developer Double Fine lets the stylistic hand brake off with a psychedelic platforming sequence that culminates in a jubilant musical number.
  — Lewis Gordon, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024