How to Use shifter in a Sentence

shifter

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• On the right side are the throttle and the gear shifter.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
• This includes the shifter, the bottom of the console, and the knee pads.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 12 May 2022
• The shifter is a gem that’s light and easy to use and always finds the right gear.
  — Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 11 May 2018
• The clutch and the shifter, so heavy in the city, work seamlessly at speed.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2022
• Keep your right foot on the brake, and move the shifter into first gear.
  — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
• More blue leather adorns the shifter, the dash pad, and the rear-seat headrests and bolsters.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2017
• Huber puts his hand on the car's shifter, as if to put it in gear.
  — CBS News, 6 June 2023
• On the road, the Elantra has light controls and a smooth, low-effort shifter.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
• And Mary doesn’t like the twisting shifter on the column of the steering wheel.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2021
• Use a white chalk pencil ($5, Amazon) to trace the shape on the shifter's mesh.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2022
• The shape-shifter might have appeared at the Avengers compound.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 June 2022
• Now, keep the bike still and click the shifter to hardest, giving slack in the cables.
  — Tyghe Trimble, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2020
• The seats were redone in blazing oxblood leather; the shifter got a new, steel knob.
  — Hannah Elliott, latimes.com, 4 May 2018
• The brakes are way too soft; the joystick-like shifter feels plastic and cheap.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• The system is accessed through the same modes as the paddle shifters.
  — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 12 May 2018
• Paddle shifters are available for the six-speed, as well as the floor shifter.
  — cleveland, 8 Aug. 2020
• The shifter slots precisely and the clutch is light, with a hill-holder.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2019
• Two stages of motion for the MEMS mechanism in the phase shifter.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2023
• The fuel cap has a Bullitt logo and the gear shifter has a cue ball top, just like the car in the movie.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2018
• No steering feel, third row heavy to stow, even worse shifter.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 30 Aug. 2023
• There's a reason no one commutes to work in a shifter kart, BMW.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 8 Oct. 2020
• The Chevrolet Blazer has been a shape shifter since the nameplate first emerged in 1969.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 19 July 2022
• Everything, from the steering wheel to the gear shifter to the seats, is covered in black leather.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 June 2022
• The key to making melatonin work for jet lag is to use it as a phase-shifter, not a sleep aid.
  — Health.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• The controls, from the shifter to the stereo buttons, move precisely.
  — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
• Of course there is a device charging area and room to lay a phone on the shifter console.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• This allowed the designers to put the cupholders to the right of the shifter instead of behind it as in the CX-9.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2023
• That's why there's a real shifter, gauges that look like gauges, and switchgear that's lovely to touch and easy to use.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 24 Feb. 2020
• In the wild, octopuses are among nature’s best shape shifters.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 July 2024
• Which is probably just as well, given the cheap plastic Shimano gear shifter.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024