How to Use check valve in a Sentence

check valve

noun
  • The plumber can check if there are fixable issues with the switch, check valve, and drainage pipe.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The fuel tank inlet check valve may not be fully welded to the fuel tank shell.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Sump pump damage can happen in the motor, check valve, switch, float, basin, discharge pipe, or casing.
    — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The second is a check valve that prevents the solution from traveling back up.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The inlet check valve weld may fail, allowing the filling pipe to separate from the fuel tank.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
  • These models have a piston that is actuated by the forend, forcing air into a cylinder fitted with a check valve that won’t let it out.
    — Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Known as a check valve, it was made of titanium and designed to let material through in only one direction.
    — Samantha Masunagastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
  • In heavy storms, the bypass serves as a sort of check valve to keep swollen rivers from over-topping the levees that protect Sacramento from flooding.
    — Ryan Sabalow, Dale Kasler and Benjy Engel, sacbee, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Among the critical inspection points is the engine bleed air fifth stage check valve on some Boeing 737s.
    — CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
  • There is a vacuum check valve in the hose designed to maintain vacuum in the booster for brake application if the engine stalls.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • But since the water is moving into a closed valve, it is redirected up past the other check valve, B, and causes the air space to be compressed.
    — WIRED, 24 Mar. 2023
  • First, the source of moisture should be investigated and eliminated and then the check valve and hose assembly may need to be replaced.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • That’s enough to provide strong engine response while the turbo gets up to speed, at which point a check valve closes and the turbo takes over from the electric supercharger.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The company installed a new check valve to make sure the water flowed in the right direction and designed a new control system to prevent the problem from happening again.
    — Jessica Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2018
  • Engineers identified a helium check valve that wasn't functioning.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The leak let nitrogen tetroxide, a combustible component in rocket propellant, seep out enough to ignite a check valve and trigger the explosion.
    — Hailey Rose McLaughlin, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2019
  • Lockney points to the microbial check valve as a solid example of how NASA can assuage this issue.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The issue engineers identified over the weekend is a malfunctioning helium check valve.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Apr. 2022
  • So far, the team has been working on replacing a faulty check valve on the rocket's upper stage that created a helium leak and repairing the source of a tail service mast hydrogen leak.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 May 2022
  • Check the manual to see if the PCV valve is a check valve or some other method for metering manifold vacuum into the crankcase.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2011
  • Check the manual to see if the positive crankcase ventilation system (or PCV) valve is a check valve or some other method for metering manifold vacuum into the crankcase.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2011
  • The largely similar front strut and rear multilink suspension has been massaged with handling in mind, featuring KYB dampers with an internal check valve that closes when subjected to lateral forces to firm up damping in corners.
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2022

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