How to Use autopilot in a Sentence

autopilot

noun

• The plane was flying on autopilot.
• The smarter move may be to take ourselves out of the equation and switch on the autopilot.
  — J.j. McCorvey, WSJ, 9 May 2022
• Thanks to the autopilot mode, younger children can use this boat with ease, too.
  — Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2022
• Let go of life on autopilot and start to take control of your own destiny!
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2022
• On autopilot, the drone tried to fly back to the Ukrainian position.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
• My mind was beginning to be too much for me and my body was on autopilot.
  — Essence, 22 Aug. 2022
• The plane flew on autopilot for four hours and crashed near Aberdeen, South Dakota.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 June 2023
• The vessel has no driver, though; it's set to autopilot.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• The angelic-looking thing did all this on the autopilot in the back of his heavenly mind.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• But don’t go on autopilot and run it through your coffee by mistake!
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• Sure-footed, diesel-powered, on autopilot to our port of call.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 21 May 2022
• The plane had broken up in the air because of an autopilot malfunction.
  — Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2022
• According to Red Bull, the planes were placed on autopilot and the engines were turned off in midair while the pilots attempted the swap.
  — Bymichelle Stoddart, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2022
• Japan’s central bank has been largely on autopilot for a few years.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• No matter what our job or level is, every one of us goes on autopilot from time to time.
  — Dede Henley, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• But Eilish is too weird to let something run on autopilot.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
• The autopilot, in recovery mode, arrests the plummet, bringing the copter back to a stable flight.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2021
• The report will do nothing to take Fed policy makers off what almost seems like autopilot to the end of the summer.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 3 June 2022
• News flash: Unlike cruise ships, friendships don’t fare well on autopilot.
  — Lindsay Geller, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
• But his 22-song concert too often felt set on autopilot.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• There is a ton of evidence that Google often leaves Play Store policing on autopilot.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
• The lawsuit does not say what led the Taylors to believe Tesla’s autopilot was being used when Mark Taylor was struck.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• Wash famously set his lineup in April, then put it on autopilot.
  — Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2022
• The constitutional amendment way of writing the budget just means that more and more of the budget is on autopilot.
  — Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2023
• In the complaint, the group lists the names of several employees who were part of the factory’s autopilot department that were fired.
  — Michelle Chapman, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• The lack of power would have left him ill-equipped to navigate the tricky boat normally without the use of essential tools, such as autopilot.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
• The group of cops claims the proprietary autopilot system failed to detect their police SUVs, some of which were stopped in a moving lane of traffic.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 28 Sep. 2021
• The real sticker shock will come later, after the programs are on autopilot.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021
• Trouble is, governments pretty much forgot how to get under the hoods of economies on autopilot for too long.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Now, instead of engaging with clients on autopilot, Jimmy decides to let his id go wild.
  — Erin Qualey, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024