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How to use rev in a sentence

22 example sentences · verb

Rev means to increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. Example: “He revved the engine in a rather macho style.”

Examples of rev by meaning

verbTo increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.

  • He revved the engine in a rather macho style.
  • You could hear the engines revving from a mile away.
  • Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games

More sentences with rev

  • Rev. Quack's healing services are little more than mumbo jumbo.From the entry mumbo jumbo
  • He snuck into Haiti and scored herbs to rev him and calm him.2010, James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, page 90. From the entry logic
  • Franklin is beside himself, revving up the engine in the pickup.2009, Chinle Miller, Desert Rats: Adventures in the American Outback, page 35. From the entry pickup
  • Then he heard the familiar revving of the overtuned engine and went to the center window.2004, Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves: A Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: Scribner, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry overtuned
  • This is someone who will rev up the team with a mark right away.1987, Dawson Taylor, Gary Patterson, Spare me!: portrait of a bowling fanatic, page 56. From the entry misfirer
  • The car’s engine revved up, and the back wheels screeched.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry she
  • To coax their pushrod designs to rev higher without running out of breath, engineers have designed lighter, stiffer, lower-friction valvetrains.2007 January 14, Don Sherman, “Making Modern Horsepower the Old-Fashioned Way”, in New York Times. From the entry valvetrain
  • You can use these tools when the boy needs calming or when he needs to rev his brain to refocus.2007, Michael Gurian, Kathy Stevens, The Minds of Boys, page 237. From the entry destimulate
  • In fact, Rune always felt like a revving engine under me, an engine that wanted to shift into a higher gear.2007, Austin Andrews, Mistress of the Runes. From the entry goey
  • Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.2003, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 2, page 52. From the entry vroom
  • Downshift while the engine is still revving well.1976 June, Russ Darnell, “Pro Techniques for Off-road Riding”, in Bob Atkinson, editor, Cycle World, volume 15, number 1, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry wheelie
  • Rev. — A device of doubtful interpretation intersected by two crosses in saltire and surmounted by a third.1920, Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, page 240. From the entry climant
  • The huge Rolls-Royce engine revved up.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry rev up
  • “Hold on.” He revved the bike.2009, Alex Archer [Jean Rabe], Eternal Journey (Rogue Angel; 17), Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry yewy
  • Israeli scientists say this can raise your heart rate, rev you up for an intense exercise session, and temporarily boost muscle power by 10 percent.2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134. From the entry rev up
  • Up came the revs again, slam the door shut, kick the stick off the throttle and up through the gears, down the others side!2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 175. From the entry whee
  • Inquiring minds may be wondering what could possibly cause the rev to behave in such a fashion, thereby diverting his attention away from such a holy task.2012, F.W. Brooks, The Tithes of March: A Novel by F.W. Brooks, →ISBN. From the entry spew
  • The footpegs and handlebars buzz as the engine revs —— the counterbalancer that controls vibration in the stock KLR has been omitted to save weight and reduce complexity.2008 February 24, Dexter Ford, “Diesel-Sipping Motorcycle for the Marines”, in New York Times. From the entry counterbalancer
  • There was the high-pitched rev of an overtuned engine, and Rosalie roared out of the shed and headed for the gully of the little stream by the dry-stone wall.1993, Ben Elton, This Other Eden, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry overtuned

Meaning of rev

  1. verb To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.

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Questions about rev in a sentence

How do you use rev in a sentence?
Rev is used as a verb. For example: “He revved the engine in a rather macho style.”
What is a short sentence with rev?
“The huge Rolls-Royce engine revved up.”
What does rev mean?
Rev means to increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rev (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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