Examples of pedal in a Sentence
cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
The robotaxis are designed to reduce reliance on car ownership, with no mirrors, no pedals, and no steering wheel and would make the $25,000 car unnecessary.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 Sep. 2023
This motor is controlled by a computer that reads the position of a sensor at the accelerator pedal.
—Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
If dense dust is observed blowing across or approaching a roadway, pull your vehicle off the pavement as far as possible, stop, turn off lights, set the emergency brake, take your foot off of the brake pedal to be sure the tail lights are not illuminated.
—Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
If there is a pedal to flush with water or a bucket to wash down waste, be sure to use it.
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
Often this means attaching the wheels, brakes, and pedals.
—Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 Aug. 2023
The new Mitsubishi Montero Sport's attributes follow the principles of automotive feng shui:
(1) The pedals are close together, and the control action of the brakes, clutch, and throttle is smooth on the road.
—Phil Berg, Car and Driver, 5 Sep. 2023
Looking to keep the pedal to the floor with 1:41 to go before the fourth quarter.
—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2023
With a tremendous amount of realistic pedal effects and other tone settings — including thousands of them already dialed in and saved in the ToneCloud for easy exploration — the app lets users load up their favorite effects to sound exactly like whatever their guitar dreams may be.
—Spin Contributor, Spin, 18 Aug. 2023
There are also plans to repurpose the pedal cart area into a stage for events and outdoor movies.
—Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2023
The problem is that most people want to ride the 5,000-plus e-bikes — this year, e-bikes are being ridden 50 percent of the time, triple the rate of pedal bike rentals.
—John Surico, Curbed, 24 July 2023
And the software decision to throw out the anchor is made in approximately the first 1 to 4 percent of pedal travel.
—Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 10 July 2023
But the pedal line wanted more solidity, and the horizontal trumpet stop was an unwelcome reinforcement of the fugue’s pedal entrance.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 10 June 2023
In the late 19th century, pedal power took a fresh turn as artisans used the wheels of stationary bikes to spin up their wood lathes, bandsaws, drill presses, and knife grinders.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 25 Apr. 2023
Soon, Gordon was playing the Autoharp through effects pedals, and cramming various odds and ends, including chopsticks, mallets, and pedal-steel slides, underneath the strings—a technique popularized, for piano, in the nineteen-thirties, by the experimental composer John Cage.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
Gears dictate how easily your child can pedal and gain momentum (read speed).
—Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 Aug. 2023
Use TrailLink to find the best bike trail near you and get pedaling!
—Corinne Sullivan, Country Living, 1 Aug. 2023
In another image, visitors pedaled past the Horace H. Rackham Memorial Fountain with the bronze bears.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2023
For many, that journey began Sunday, when 20,000 weeklong riders ceremoniously bobbed their back wheels in the Missouri River and pedaled away.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
Class 1 has a motor that only operates when the rider is pedaling.
—Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
With less room for cars now — and after Covid-era cycling lanes were made permanent — thousands of people are pedaling to the city’s hottest spots.
—Liz Alderman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
Tandem partner Lynn Evans took the lead, while Loftus pedaled along behind and took in the vistas from the top of the Ross Island, Marquam and Fremont bridges.
—Mike Rogoway | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2023
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Word History
Noun
borrowed from Middle French pedalle "pedal of an organ," borrowed from Italian pedale, earlier, "base of a tree trunk," going back to Latin pedālis "one foot long" (as noun pedāle "footwear") — more at pedal entry 2
Adjective
borrowed from Latin pedālis "one foot long," from ped-, pēs "foot" + -ālis -al entry 1; (sense 2) from attributive use of pedal entry 1 — more at foot entry 1
Verb
derivative of pedal entry 1
Noun
1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Adjective
1618, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1883, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
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“Pedal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedal. Accessed 25 Sep. 2023.
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Kids Definition
pedal
1 of 2 noun
pedal
2 of 2 verbNoun
from early French pedale "a foot lever on an organ," from Italian pedale (same meaning), from Latin pedalis "of the foot," from ped-, pes "foot" — related to pedestrian
Medical Definition
pedal
adjective
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Nglish: Translation of pedal for Spanish Speakers
Britannica English: Translation of pedal for Arabic Speakers
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