NOUN
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
How To Use low gear In A Sentence
- Bored by the long drive, Willy and Grecs decided to pass the time by redlining an already heated engine with high speed in low gear.
- She selected a low gear and started down the track carefully.
- You have to come down that hill in a low gear to keep within the speed limit.
- You have to come down that hill in a low gear to keep within the speed limit.
- You have to drive up the mountain in low gear to get to our driveway, which is barely wide enough for one car and ends at a steep drop-off.
- Use the low gear when operating a heavy tiller in loose soil or on a slope.
- This circuit produces the heaviest consumption of the year thanks to a combination of constant acceleration in low gears and heavy braking. Times, Sunday Times
- Glover stayed in low gear for the crawl into town.
- She selected a low gear and started down the track carefully.
- In automatic mode it will sense via accelerometers when to retain a low gear and when to downshift.