The panel on the climbing robot, about the size of a coffee tray, harvested enough power to run a small lawnmower.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

When she stumbles on the shack occupied by Trent, a local lawnmower man, she thinks she has discovered a wizard's lair.

ECONOMIST: Sundance film festival

She grabbed my arm and pulled on it like it was the starter rope on a lawnmower engine.

NPR: 'Guys Read:' Encouraging Boys to Love Books

She was missing two fingers on her right hand from a lawnmower incident and sometimes used that hand to scare a kid silent.

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

At the beginning of each day, the machine has to cut grass outside the Welsh Musuem of Speed to prove it qualifies as a lawnmower.

BBC: Speed attempt lawnmower bid preparing at Pendine sands

They want to wire the block-long park with electricity so they could run a lawnmower, maybe bring out a band on a hot summer night, or install a few power outlets so residents could recharge an iPad while they hang out.

FORBES: D.C. Park Reveals the Gap Between Microgrid Promise and Reality

Project Runningblade aims to use a machine built primarily of lawnmower parts to beat the 80.792mph set in 2006.

BBC: Speed attempt lawnmower bid preparing at Pendine sands

Senna, one of the sport's most dynamic drivers, became transfixed with an improvised go-kart made for him as a four-year-old by his father using old parts of an old lawnmower.

CNN: Go-kart crazy: Where F1 dreams begin

The lone generator, dubbed TidGen, lies in Cobscook Bay off the town of Eastport, where its lawnmower-shaped blades churn as 20-foot tides rise and fall twice a day.

FORBES: Ocean Power Finally Comes Online

It's all well and good "fancying the shiny new lawnmower someone else has got" said one MP but he'd never thought it a good strategy.

BBC: Commission keeps calm and carries on