How to Use piston in a Sentence

piston

noun

• On a 2 stroke, the piston will travel two times to do the same thing.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 16 Aug. 2023
• Soak the piston and any rings in solvent and scrub them clean.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
• Clean the area on the piston and caliper where the pad backing plate touches.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
• Clean the area on the piston and caliper where the brake pad backing plate touches.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
• These fit between the pad and the brake caliper's hydraulic piston.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
• In order to do that, check the number of steps the piston has: The more there are, the higher each stroke will lift the jack.
  — Field & Stream, 12 May 2020
• The top end of the 2.0-liter flat-six came apart without any issues, but the pistons were seized in the cylinders.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2017
• When the springs expand (wheels go down), the piston pushes out.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
• The rear is a single 240mm disc with a single piston caliper.
  — Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2019
• Placing the thick rubber hose on the arms of the piston like a sleeve prevents the doors from opening.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022
• On many nights, that heart pumps like the pistons in a stock car, a source of energy for the Cubs to utilize.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
• Then, on a single up the middle, his little pistons took him home for the first run of a 2-1 game.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• Every part has a roll, like pistons firing at the right time.
  — Nacey Watson Johnson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
• Honda gave the bike an old-school drum rear brake and a single front disc with a twin-piston caliper.
  — Joe Michaud, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• That’s because those piston-like legs have taken him all over the world.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
• To help all the speed and muscle come are four-wheel disc brakes with 14-inch rotors and Wilwood six-piston calipers.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2021
• Later in the game, Chubb’s piston-like legs kicked away an arm tackle...and he was gone for a 20-yard TD dash.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2020
• Use a caliper compression tool, shown here, or a C clamp to retract the piston.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Stroke refers to the distance a piston travels in its cylinder.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• These users of piston engines say their planes are also put to good use.
  — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2021
• In the first round, the two boys jabbed with their elbows and fired their knees like pistons into the other’s stomach.
  — Shashank Bengalistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
• The lid opens with a smooth-motion piston system that allows for a slow close, and the lid is lockable.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
• When the springs compress (wheels get pushed up), the shock’s piston pushes inward.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
• Up against a wall in the Amber Lab is a robot that bounces up and down a scaffolding like a piston.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2018
• The volume the piston can squeeze is the compression ratio.
  — Blake Z. Rong, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2018
• The good news is, that a universal brake caliper piston tool kit can be bought for as little as $25.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2022
• The mechanic later showed me the piston and it was destroyed.
  — Ramona Sentinel, 21 July 2017
• The pistons moving up and down rotate the crankshaft, which (with a few more connections) turns the wheels.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
• Five ecstatic huskies are pulling me through an icy white landscape, tongues lolling out of their mouths and legs pumping like pistons.
  — Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Apr. 2024
• Carl Jung’s great ally turned rival, Sigmund Freud, proposed a model of the human psyche that acted much like a machine—repression and projection as twin pistons in the psychic engine.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024