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Example sentences for "prime mover"

  • So I waited, and gave Polly Ann no hint of my intention.

  • This time I jumped up, ran into the house, and got down some corn-pone and a leg of turkey.

  • He is connected in some way with the Temples.

  • Howland, who introduced the electric light here, was a prime mover in this project, but ill fortune attended his efforts and he died a poor man.

  • He was a prime mover in having the name of Fort Street altered to that of Broadway, certainly a change of questionable propriety considering the origin of the old name.

  • It is generally supposed that the steam-boat is of very recent invention; on the contrary, however, the possibility of employing steam as a prime mover in the propelling of vessels was suggested as far back as the reign of Charles I.

  • The patent revolving wheel invented by Mr. Masterman, appears to promise the best results of any rotatory engine yet invented, the friction being much less than in any other apparatus in which steam is employed as a prime mover.

  • Sidenote: God conceived as prime mover a superfluity according to modern physics.

  • If there is no necessity for the conception of God as a prime mover, is there any necessity for the conception of God as the Creator of the universe?

  • Brake horse power, the net effective power of a prime mover, as a steam engine, water wheel, etc.

  • A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black gave; direct object; dollars worth; family worship; federal party; hang himself; length arrived; material thing; much beauty; must stand; native white; ordinary occasions; other poems; particular description; prime importance; prime minister; prime minister and deputy prime minister; prime minister and deputy prime ministers; prime mover; prime necessity; prime number; quite distinct; telephone service; under stress; will help; wise man