With a sardonic flicker of a grin, half of spite, half of relief, Rochester put on the brakes again, and we stopped in the street.
Phil set the brakes a little, and the car slowed down.
Breaking the air circuit would set the brakes the entire length of the train.
Once outside, Phil threw off the brakes and then the foreman of the section gang brought his knowledge to bear on the situation.
When I jerk once sharply on the bell rope set the brakes tight.
The wheels groan beneath the pressure of the brakes and then, with a mighty jerk that shakes everybody up, the train comes to a stand-still.
He was almost unconscious, but could hear the wheels squeaking under the pressure of the brakes as he was hurled to and fro.
A beam of light is suddenly thrown across the rails, green and red lanterns slip by with the speed of lightning, and then the brakes squeak and the train runs noisily into the dark station.
Then, when going down a long incline, the brakes caused so much friction that we nearly got on fire; but by waiting for a while the danger was passed and we reached Chamonix safely.
The train rattled over the yard switches, slid creaking under the brakes down to the river, rumbled across the bridge, and then toiled up the first of the long grades between Truesdale and Sawyerville.
The brakes were released, and the train rolled easily out beyond the station on to the long siding.
In spite of all Bert could do, the fast express train gained on them, although sparks were streaming from the wheels where the brakes were clamped against them.
For a hundred or two hundred feet the train failed to gain an inch, and then the brakes began to tell and it gradually fell to the rear.
Down the long hill glided the "Red Scout" with constantly increasing momentum, and long before they reached the bottom Bert had to apply the powerful brakes with which the machine was equipped, and check its speed.
A tuft of green leaves waved upon his crest, a larger tuft of brakes made an umbrageous tail, and a shawl of many colours formed his flapping wings.
At this juncture the brakes began to shriek and grind upon the wheels.
In some places, submerged forests and cane-brakes are still visible at a great depth, on the bottom of lakes, which were then formed.
The sunshine in the happy glens is fair, And by the sea, and in the brakes The grass is cool, the sea-side air Buoyant and fresh.
The arbour of old oaks, their branches twined into a panoply of thick foliage, stretching from the mansion to the landing, seemed like a sleeping battlement, its dark clusters soaring above redolent brakes and spreading water-leaks.
The use of a trailer equipped with brakes will do away with the numerous devices for snubbing a load of logs down a grade not steeper than twelve per cent.
A spring attached to the reach clamp pulls back the equalizing bar when the brakes are released.
It was found that cross planking was not necessary on curves where the grade is ten per cent or less when coming down with a load, providing trailer brakes are used.
A device connecting the trailer brakes to the truck permits a ready control from the driver's seat on the truck.
The brakes are applied by a control system mounted on the steering column.
On grades too steep to operate a truck safely with the ordinary brakes and yet not steep enough to warrant the expense of the donkey snubber, the difficulty is overcome by means of a friction snubber.
All trailers should be equipped with brakes when negotiating heavy grades.
When the brakes failed, one after another, I was, if possible, more pained than surprised.
In other words, the brakes failed, and I had to run him into the bushes.
Jest put it in de books as 'absent without leave,' 'cause I'll be due back jest ez soon ez I kin git my brakes to work.
By throwing on the brakes the chauffeur succeeded in halting the car before its front wheels went over and into the cut.
He would also have these brakes under the control of the guard, by means of a connecting line running along the whole length of the train, by which they should at once be thrown out of gear when necessary.
For the purpose of stopping the train, brakes on an improved plan were also contrived, with new modes of lubricating the carriage-axles, on which the wheels revolved at an unusually high velocity.
His plan consisted in employing the momentum of the running train to throw his proposed brakes into action immediately on the moving power of the engine being checked.
The picnic was over and the people preparing to go home when they were startled by a crash, followed by the screaming of brakes as a big engine flew past the grove and brought a heavy train to a halt some distance down the grade.
She turns to leave the room when the sound of an automobile is heard without, the brakes going on, etc.
We'll have to put on the brakes for awhile, Honora.
The brakes screamed as the car came joltingly to a stop.
He's just been out West with us on a trip, and he was always looking at locomotives and brakes and grades and bridges and all such tiresome things.
I suppose Jord would have taken that skid for any blamed beggar who got in his way, but of course it didn't take any force off the way he jammed on those brakes when he saw it was a friend he was going to hit.
Shonoho road when the touring-car, with brakes protesting, came to a stand at the tree barrier.
There were wheels within wheels, and the application of the brakesto the smallest of them led to discordant janglings throughout the whole.
There was a grinding of the brakes and the power was shut off.
Then the express thundered up, the whistle shrieking loudly and the sparks flying from the wheels where the brakes gripped them.
The taxi swung wildly around another corner and the brakes screeched as a string of red lights barred their way.
The driver of their vehicle jammed on his brakesjust as the pursuing machine lurched around the corner.
The driver slammed on the brakes and swung his car toward the curb, but a curt command from Bob's uncle stopped him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
