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the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
you shouldn't try to start in third gear
How To Use third gear In A Sentence
- So smooth and balanced is this car that on one occasion I had to be reminded by my co-driver that I was still in third gear at 120 km/h.
- Lee shifted to third gear and blasted through the long stretch of highway.
- Second and third gears both provided plenty of grunt, allowing it to pull out of corners with maximum flair.
- The world champions rarely slipped out of third gear in attack. Times, Sunday Times
- Halfway the circuit, behind the paddock, a fast left-right combination makes you shift back to third gear before gradually changing gear up to fifth.
- The vast torque on tap makes it so tractable you can just stick it in third gear and drive it like an automatic.
- Drake slammed on the gas and shifted into third gear.
- The final right-hander is negotiated at 136 km/h in third gear and takes you back onto the start-finish straight.
- The other thing we had noticed when Sally had come in to have the warning light checked out was that the transmission was always stuck in third gear, or fail-safe mode.
- So after about a mile of sauntering I shifted into third gear and left Brower with his hair ruffling in my wind.