How to Use pinion in a Sentence

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noun
  • Tunisia was, in my pinion, the Arab Spring's first best hope.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013
  • Leaks from the rack-and-pinion steering unit are common and may cost around $500 to fix.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • In the club lounge, Cy the Cynic told us that the feathers at a bird’s wingtip are called pinions.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 28 May 2024
  • Trương begins by laying down the chassis and equipping the rear axle and pinion steering.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 June 2021
  • Nine percent of respondents remained unsure or had no pinion on the race.
    — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The loudest sounds were the rattling calls of red-shafted flickers flitting in pinion pines.
    — Louis Sahagúnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The differential is also stuff with a larger ring and pinion gears.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Hyundai The pinion gear multilink from a Uni Wheel drive system.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Porsche is also trying rack-and-pinion steering in a production car for the first time on the 911.
    — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The differential oil lubricates the ring and pinion gears that transfer power from the driveshaft to the wheel axles.
    — Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The Tick Performance crew changed the rear-end ring and pinion gears for higher top speed, and headed for the runway.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
  • That’s why it is equipped with a rack-and-pinion fence system and one that has gone on to be widely favored by finish carpenters taking these saws to the job site.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The Air Force said a pinion gear — a critical part of the proprotor gearbox — failed leading up to the crash.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Gears driven by the driveshaft (or rotor) turn individual pinion gears.
    — New Atlas, 21 Apr. 2025
  • But when the Skarper unit attaches to the rotor, two pins hold the disc securely in position while a third pinion gear drives the wheel.
    — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The upward rotation is facilitated by a gear underneath the bridge called a pinion.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The launch was delayed because the car could initially travel only backward; an engineer had fitted the pinion gear on the rear axle the wrong way around.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Joining the beleaguered list are the yucca night lizard, which lives under the branches of the tree, pinion pine, manzanita, bighorn sheep, and the desert tortoise.
    — Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
  • The centerpiece is the double-clutch system with oscillating pinions.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This restaurant serves food based on traditional Hualapai Tribe recipes, such as fry bread tacos and Hualapai pinion stew.
    — Michael Salerno, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • Visiting Milford in 2021, I was struck by the odd lack of native sage brush, pinion and juniper.
    — Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Better brakes and new rack and pinion steering, instead of a crude recirculating ball setup, also sharpened the car’s handling.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 13 May 2026
  • The gearbox is the aircraft’s transmission and contains five pinion gears that spin to send energy from the engine to the Osprey’s masts and rotor blades.
    — Brad Dress, The Hill, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Here, visitors and locals alike stroll through the historic adobe neighborhood surrounded by hundreds of lanterns (farolitos) and pinion bonfires.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The nozzle moves on tracks or gantries (some have two axes, some more), assisted sometimes by actuators, servo motors, rack-and-pinion structures, or slide guides.
    — WIRED, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The multi-link front suspension, including electric-assist rack-and-pinion steering, feels impressively stout yet lightly greased and easy to turn.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • While far more spare and simple than many of today’s models, the rack-and-pinion adjustment system and glass stage are still familiar elements to modern scientists.
    — Jennifer Doudna, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Much like its Swiss counterparts, the meter-gauge railway will scale steep mountain sections with the assistance of a rack-and-pinion system mounted between the rails.
    — Ben Jones, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The thriller about ambition, rivalry and human frailty, set in the ballet world, evoked visceral reactions — from adrenaline highs to pull-pinions-from-your-flesh shudders.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 June 2026
  • Winter makes for a great time to visit with the burning pinion fires–and pinion coffee–but so does spring when the fruit trees are blooming, or late July and August when the lavender blooms.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025

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