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propel - use in sentences
Object
- wheelchair: If you propel the wheelchair yourself a tray will let you carry objects.
- vehicle: Gas propelled vehicles have been around for many years.
- mankind: Finally, the contemporary economic disorder has propelled mankind to live in an age of crisis - political, social, and financial crises.
- rocket: There is an Artillery Battalion of around eighteen self propelled rocket assisted howitzers split into three batteries.
Subject
- oar: It was the last great battle to be fought in ships propelled by oars.
- engine: To date, every vehicle placed into orbit has been propelled solely by rocket engines.
Modifying Another Word
- mechanically: Any ' mechanically propelled ' vehicle used or kept on a public road must display a valid tax disk.
- non-mechanically: These paths will be known as restricted byways - highways over which there are bridleway rights and the right to drive non-mechanically propelled vehicles.
- electrically: In September 2000 a woman in London was convicted of riding an electrically propelled scooter on the road without insurance.
- manually: A license is needed in order to navigate even a manually propelled boat on the Thames.
- forward: World capitalism is not propelled forward by the permanent arms economy.
- either: Balls were propelled either by a cue or a mace ( a long stick with a flat pushing block on one end ).
Followed by an intransitive particle
- along: The whole thing is propelled along by the relentless rhythm of the piece.
Preposition: at
- speed: Sitting in it, 7in above the road, it's like being propelled at warp speed.
Preposition: by
- oar: It was the last great battle to be fought in ships propelled by oars.
- engine: To date, every vehicle placed into orbit has been propelled solely by rocket engines.
- wind: In fact most families enjoy time on the water during the summer, whether being propelled by wind or motor.
- force: This objective may yet be propelled by legislative force in the form of a proposed Composting Directive.
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