| He engaged the engine, causing two large screw propellers to whirl frantically and the wood and cloth contraption to lift off the ground. |
| There was no chance of saving the ship and by low water she was hard aground, her propellers embedded in the sand. |
| We fly to Iasi, a remote university town in the north-east of Romania, on a tiny bone-shaker of a plane with propellers. |
| With its wings folded and contra-rotating propellers missing, the former fighter was neatly parked between two of the unit's wooden huts. |
| As the ship tore through the defenseless nurseries, its propellers caught the fishery ropes and dragged the nurseries in its wake. |
| The vessel's net entangled and fouled the 52-foot motor lifeboat's twin 36-inch brass propellers. |
