How to Use flying machine in a Sentence

flying machine

noun

• In the towel was a very small bird that had managed to ground a 55-ton flying machine.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 31 Dec. 2017
• Take a look at some of the flying machines and other gadgets and equipment that were at the event.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
• The flying machine itself is of the bi-plane order, with planes four and a half to five feet wide and twenty-six feet long.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• Even great and ingenious things, like the first flying machine on Mars.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
• At this point, Ginsburg would head to the chest press, leg extension, lat pull-down, cable row, and chest fly machines.
  — Andrea Park, SELF, 20 Sep. 2017
• Not if the Field’s sulking, life-size model of a Quetzalcoatlus, a winged predator the size of a Wright flying machine, has anything to say about it.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• The planes look like insects, and the film suggests that’s one way that a flying machine, in another planetary sphere, might have evolved.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• Using the rope on a cable fly machine, choose a starting weight that will challenge you (about 30 pounds, but adjust as needed).
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• The goal is to make their flying machine look like an eagle while incorporating the colors red, white and blue.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
• And now, coming onto the radar screen, are flying machines that do not exactly look like your father’s Buick with wings.
  — Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
• Here are a few highlights of my discussion with Franky about his latest flying machines.
  — Nick Goddard, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2016
• This isn’t a new drone prototype for the military; it’s a flying machine engineered by nature: the blowfly.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2014
• There is another flying machine already in the works, the Dragonfly mission that will fly on Titan in 2036.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2021
• On the weekends, the crew has been constructing their flying machine inside a warehouse on the company's campus.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
• The English Channel was shrouded in a cold and clammy fog; the small fabric-and-wood flying machine perched atop the Dover cliffs looked impossibly flimsy.
  — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 13 June 2022
• Over the coming weeks, Perseverance will deploy the four-pound flying machine.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• Cast out of the colony for his blunder, Flik enlists the aid of outsiders—non-ant bugs—and builds a great flying machine fashioned to fool the grasshoppers into thinking they’re being attacked by a bird.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
• Starting in the late 15th century, for example, Leonardo da Vinci modeled his designs for a flying machine based on the wings of a bird or bat.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2020
• Even a coyote won’t tangle with an armor plated turkey that resembles some kind of flying machine in a Star Wars movie.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 July 2019
• Consider the child who turns their wagon into a flying machine or the young entrepreneur who uses their wagon to collect rouge golf balls on the course and sell them to golfers.
  — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• Workhorse’s SureFly personal electric flying machine just took off for the first time.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 8 May 2018
• Many of Terrafugia’s competitors, though, are abandoning the idea of flying machines that can also drive.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• Many recalled a flying machine equipped with a powerful searchlight.
  — Greg Eghigian, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
• During one Dune scene in which Ferguson is trapped in a birdlike flying machine called an ornithopter, her terror was pushed to its white- knuckle limit.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• Now researchers have taken it a step further, building a flying machine that is controlled by the operator's thoughts.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2013
• How this affects war in the air is a good question, but its implications for pilots and their flying machines is undeniable.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2019
• Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
  — Jennifer Bogo, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2018
• Reichert and his fellow team leader Cameron Robertson have been working to design a human-powered flying machine for six years.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2013
• Pushing the technology further NASA already has big plans for flying machines on other worlds.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
• The fragile little flying machine has been exposed to the harsh Martian atmosphere for more than two and a half years, including bruising radiation, dust storms, and wide swings in temperature from very, very cold to sort of warm.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024