How to Use rev in a Sentence

rev

1 of 2 noun
Definition of revnext
  • Indeed, that's a lot of rev in the Rocket City and the zoom is getting more room, too.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Any true health fiend knows, though, that the wind-down is just as important as the rev-up.
    — Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Yet the young men wear new American sports gear and rev shiny dirt bikes.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2019
  • The capcom woke Buzz Aldrin one rev early to do a rendezvous radar check.
    — Jennifer Bogo, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2019
  • There’s also the Civic Type R’s rev-matching feature on tap.
    — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The rev-matching is nice if a rider is caught out on a late-corner downshift.
    — Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2019
  • When all the kids are outside, the center is quiet save the rattling hum of the AC and the intermittent rev of a passing car.
    — Jennifer Brookland, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Carr stalled out again Texas’ guard Marcus Carr had little rev to him once again, as the Bears held him to a quiet outing.
    — Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Fuel economy comes in at 16 mpg city and 25 highway for the Tremec six-speed with rev-matching.
    — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2018
  • And getting caught too low in the rev range exposes the engine’s laggy nature.
    — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Mushroom barley soup gets a rev of flavor from a bottle of nut brown ale in the beginning and a splash of pickle brine at the end for brightness.
    — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The pedals are spaced a bit far apart for easy heel-and-toeing, but the auto rev-matching feature (which can be turned off) works better than most Nikes will.
    — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The rev-up came after the company's sales and earnings reports late Wednesday topped Wall Street forecasts for the final three months of 2019.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Once again, the engine's partner in lap times is a six-speed manual transmission with a rev-match feature.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 July 2022
  • For drivers still perfecting their craft, the Mach 1 features rev-matching downshifts—purists will be happy to know it can be shut off.
    — Nelson Ireson, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Switching to Sport mode and using the paddle shifters stiffened up the suspension a bit, while the transmission let the 3.3-liter turbocharged V-6 rev to the driver’s command.
    — Jack Brandais, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • One of the notable additions to the new Si is a rev-matching system, which was previously available only on the Civic Type R.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Classes include body, rev, bounce, yoga and mind hammock.
    — Houston Chronicle, 11 Dec. 2017
  • As long as rumors of a rotary revival endure, car lovers will dream of this fussy, quirky engine once again powering the wheels of a torquey, rev-happy ride.
    — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 2018
  • Porsche will allow customers to disable the automated rev-match function in the future, though.
    — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The other main advantage King claims is that the Szorenyi's rev limit isn't constrained by the crankshaft bending that results from the Wankel's eccentric rotors.
    — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2019
  • While pedal placement may not be ideal for heel-toe work, the six-speed manual is otherwise easy to row; a rev-match feature is standard.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 8 Nov. 2022
  • A satellite office in Melbourne houses sales and rev ops departments.
    — Marc Schneider, Billboard, 27 June 2017
  • Selecting the manual also brings active rev matching (V-6 and V-8 only), which provides smooth downshifts for those who can’t heel-and-toe on the go.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 2 Nov. 2017
  • There's no auto rev-match system, which makes the pedal position even more regrettable.
    — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 9 Aug. 2020
  • That makes sense, as this natural chemical has been shown to curb appetite and rev metabolism.
    — Cynthia Sass, Rd, Health.com, 10 June 2019
  • First, these will be the last Corvettes with a manual transmission—a trick seven-speeder with a rev-matching function for downshifting.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Preuninger's team has listened to customers very closely, and as a result, the manual's rev-match system can be turned off entirely.
    — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 25 Nov. 2020
  • In Sport mode, the automatic rev matching on downshifts increases the V-10’s chortle.
    — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
  • Active rev matching can be turned on or off, but its on-point operation allows amateur drivers to feel like pros.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2018
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rev

2 of 2 verb
  • In the final race of the Clash, 23 cars will rev up at the same time on the quarter-mile track.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The driver stopped the car and was revving the engine while it was stopped.
    — cleveland, 5 Feb. 2020
  • They were designed for fundraising and for tweets and to just rev up a base.
    — al, 8 Apr. 2022
  • That starts with James, who plans to rev up his engine soon.
    — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Distant thuds and the sound of revving engines can be heard as the footage pans wildly.
    — Matthew Mulligan, NBC News, 8 June 2023
  • Athletes’ hearts and lungs still rev up like a car in park with a foot on the gas pedal.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Cal is part of the Pac-12 Conference, the last of the big-time leagues to rev up its football season.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Starting outside can rev you up for the rest of a rehab.
    — Mark Thompson, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 May 2021
  • That's of course thanks to the caffeine, a stimulant that can rev up your body's engine for the day.
    — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But once tots reached the preschool age -- the 2- to 4-year-olds -- two shots didn’t rev up enough immunity.
    — Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • With each press, the engine will rev up and back down several times.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Wall Street banks had hoped that deal making would rev back up in early 2023.
    — Annamaria Andriotis, wsj.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • As a result, the initial response in the lungs doesn’t fully rev up, letting the virus run roughshod.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The driver can then rev the engine to different speeds and try to make the noise occur.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • When a person stops using steroids, the body’s machinery takes a while to rev up again.
    — William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The conversation was like a car revving its engine ready to go.
    — Melissa Schorr, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Campaigns were revving up their last push before the March 17 contest.
    — cleveland, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The calm scene is a far cry from the revving tractors and bales of hay blocking major highways just a few miles outside the city.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Manis put on her helmet, hopped on the bike, revved the engine and then did just that.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • To continue to rev up the same people over and over again in hopes that their energy [beats] the Democrats on the other side?
    — James Barragán, Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Cheatham hopes to rev up some excitement about the sport in Easterwood on the opening day of the Olympics in late July.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • At about the 18-hour mark of fasting is when the benefits described above kick into gear and rev up.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 16 June 2022
  • The motor can rev up to 10 mph and the shock-absorbing and cushioned deck is supportive for your joints.
    — Nicole Saunders, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2021
  • But as the Mercury’s stingy defense would have it, the Dream’s hot shooting wasn’t able to rev back up again as the team missed its last shot when the clock expired.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2022
  • And a booster shot may rev up immunity enough to do both.
    — Lauran Neergaard, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • No other country could come close to matching the sounds and smells of a Ducati, Moto Guzzi, or Aprilia revving by.
    — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
  • If your style vibe is like Hailey's and Lori's tough looks, keep scrolling to shop some of our favorite edgy pieces to rev things up this summer.
    — Seventeen, 9 June 2023
  • The question is, will Beijing manage to deploy the right tools to rev up its economy?
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 16 May 2022
  • This might seem an odd time for a company like ASML to rev up its production plans.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Early the next morning, the group was literally revving to go.
    — Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023

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