How to Use emergency brake in a Sentence

emergency brake

noun
  • Set your emergency brake and take your foot off the brake.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • No one can pull the emergency brake or hand out Chick tracts.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2022
  • When stopped, turn off your lights, set your emergency brake and take your foot off the brake.
    — Michael Donohue, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
  • Set the emergency brake and take your foot off the brake pedal.
    — Staff Reports, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Set the emergency brake and take their foot off the brake pedal.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
  • If driving a car with a good, strong emergency brake, go ahead and use it.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Then the wheels came off, and there was nobody on the Wolves who could find the emergency brake.
    — Chris Hine, Star Tribune, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Set your emergency brake and take your foot off the brake to keep your brake lights from activating.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • Nix pulled the emergency brake on the carousel, stopping the wandering eye of the team and its fans.
    — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Police said one of the brothers helped steer the bus over to the side of the road but could not get to the emergency brake.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Once all went awry on the offramp, the driver may have prevented the wreck by pulling the emergency brake.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
  • His valuables and money were not stolen, and his car was on and in gear with the emergency brake deployed when his body was found.
    — Traci Rosenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
  • If this doesn’t work, shift to a lower gear or, if need be, pull your emergency brake up gradually.
    — Time, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The train's emergency brake was activated after crews said an alarm went off.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The engineer saw the vehicle and applied the emergency brakes but was not able to stop the train.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But several high-speed crashes in testing saw the series fit an emergency brake to the rear.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 July 2023
  • The fourth train operator did not apply the emergency brake due to being in shock.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
  • This does not apply to conservatives who have that emergency brake.
    — Fox News, 6 Aug. 2018
  • The train driver did apply the emergency brake, but was unable to avoid a collision.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
  • Pedal pub bikes are equipped with headlights, brake lights, taillights, blinkers, brakes and emergency brakes.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Johnson advised him to put the car in neutral, brake, or pull the emergency brake, but the car continued to drive.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024
  • In the seven seconds before the crash, the crew sounded the horn, flipped the throttle to idle and hit the emergency brake.
    — Matthew Haag, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The driver, who was seriously injured, managed to slam on the emergency brakes and bring the train to a halt.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The worker then pulled the emergency brake to stop the train before getting off to inform the control tower.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • June saves their lives by pulling the emergency brake and pushing them from the train in the middle of the night in the middle of God-knows-where.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
  • One wrong move—an emergency brake not set right, Fluffy shifting her weight just so—and the vehicle could have crashed into the ravine.
    — Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The emergency brakes were not applied by any of the four incoming train operators.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The relative stability in stocks in the past 24 hours helps those who don't want to pull the emergency brake.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Some were alarmed by the train’s breakneck acceleration and screeching stops, but none pulled the emergency brake.
    — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The woofer was wearing a leash, and investigators believe it got caught on the emergency brake and released it.
    — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2022

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