How to Use propeller in a Sentence
propeller
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The guns and the propeller and things like that were stolen years ago.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 June 2024
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The child was then struck by the boat’s rear propeller.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
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Both variants have a propeller in the back to push it through the air.
—Rob Verger, Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2023
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Judd said the victim's shirt was found wrapped around the propeller of the boat.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2022
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But it was caught in a stiff wind on take off and crashed, shearing off the propeller.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
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In the video, the propeller stops and Jacob, wearing skydiving gear, opens the door of the plane and jumps.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
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When the feed resumes, the drone’s propeller is shown to be damaged.
—Lara Jakes Lara Jakes Michael Crowley Nick Cumming-Bruce Helene Cooper Matthew Mpoke Bigg Lara Jakes Anushka Patil Lara Jakes Lara Jakes Andrew Higgins Andrew Higgins Marc Santora Andrew Higgins Valerie Hopkins Nick Cumming-Bruce Nick Cumming-Bruce Valerie Hopkins Valerie Hopkins Marc Santora Eric Schmitt Anushka Patil Carly Olson Valerie Hopkins Eric Schmitt Eric Schmitt Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
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As the propellers move the craft forward, the plane is held aloft by the cushion of air between it and the water.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
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About a minute and a half into the video, the plane's propeller slows to a stop, and Jacob starts cursing.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
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When Moody fired the guns, the slugs struck the propeller, causing the plane to crash into the waters below.
—Corey Williams, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
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He was injured by a boat propeller after the driver of the boat tried to search for the boy and couldn't see him in the water.
—Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
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Aliyu got out and walked toward the front and was struck in the head by the propeller, killing him instantly, Futch says.
—Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2022
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Smoke sputtered out of the exhaust and the propeller spun, creating a strong wind that streamed away from the plane.
—The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2022
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As Murcia fought to free the aircraft, one of its wheels hit a divot, tilting the plane so much that the propeller bumped the ground.
—Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
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The boy’s shirt was found wrapped around the boat’s propeller following the accident but the boy has still not been found.
—Jon Haworth, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2022
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In Myanmar, both sides have come to fear the whir of the propeller blades agitating the air above them.
—Paul Mozur Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 4 May 2024
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Tossing our packs out of the rear cargo hold, Jesse fired up the propeller and was gone in minutes.
—Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2023
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The Coast Guard had dropped nets into the water to try to stall the boat’s propeller, but without success.
—Kyle Melnick, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife report also states that Elliott was struck by the boat propeller and killed.
—Adam Sabes, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2022
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At one point Valeri let Oleg steer, and the boy ran the stern of the boat into an ice floe, bending the engine’s propeller.
—Longreads, 2 Mar. 2022
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Grabbing the propeller blade, a crew member spun it hard.
—David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
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On the last pass, one of the Su-27s reportedly clipped the Reaper’s pusher propeller.
—Eric Tegler, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
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We are swamped in the wake of their yachts and chopped up by the propeller blades, even if the billionaires, sitting on the top deck, scarcely feel a bump.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 May 2023
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The director flew solo in a tiny propeller plane to get there.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2022
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The Guardian reported that the crash caused Vaughan to fall overboard where she was struck by the boat’s propeller.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2023
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Both of her feet were severed by the vessel’s propeller.
—Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
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Luckily, many drones have spare parts in the event of a broken or lost propeller.
—Jessica Hartshorn and Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2022
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To fly, the drone needs high-speed propellers to throw a lot of lightweight air around as fast as possible.
—Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 8 June 2023
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Quinlan couldn’t get the propeller to work, and the craft continued to rise, reaching as high as 3,000 feet.
—Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
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In contrast, eVTOL aircraft use multiple small propellers that spin half as fast as a chopper’s rotor—avoiding the annoying, low-frequency sound pulses created by the big whirling blades.
—Steven Ashley, Scientific American, 14 June 2024
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