How to Use supersonic in a Sentence

supersonic

adjective
  • The Sea Dart was the first supersonic seaplane in the world.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Now based in Texas, the pair both fly supersonic B-1 bombers.
    Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • But [the supersonic speed] also hurts her life in all kinds of ways.
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • Here’s more on why supersonic flight creates sonic booms, and how the X-59 could change that.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 15 June 2023
  • In order to catch up with the plane, the jets were authorized to fly at supersonic speeds, and the sonic boom came from the two F-16 jets out of Andrews.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 5 June 2023
  • The United States responded to the North’s weapons launch by flying supersonic bombers in a show of force.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
  • In 1977, the supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • In the meantime, 20 years after its final flight, the Concorde lives on as the symbol of supersonic flight.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2023
  • With a total of £77.5 million, the supersonic film is the highest grosser of the year in the territory.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022
  • So instead of flying it at supersonic speeds, keep it still and then move everything else past the cells.
    Diana Tsai, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • His super-secure approach won over the U.S. military, and his first big sale was to the maker of the B1-B supersonic bomber.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Joe had ejected from his crippled aircraft at supersonic speed, and was lucky to be alive.
    Jim Clash, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The aircraft will also be used as a supersonic business jet that can link any two points on Earth, reports Space.com.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2022
  • But this does line up with the supersonic pace with which Lopez and Affleck have seemingly rekindled their flame.
    Christopher Ros, Glamour, 21 July 2021
  • Mach numbers above 1 mean an object is traveling at supersonic speeds—that is, faster than the speed of sound.
    Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The result has been a slow-motion birth, in fits and starts, of a super-state — kind of like a supersonic jet constructing itself in mid-flight.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The 2021 shutdown of the Aerion supersonic passenger jet program should have served as the canary in the coal mine for others.
    Brian Foley, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • MiG-25 Foxbat had crossed into the no-fly zone, baited the Americans, and hustled back north at supersonic speed with the F-15s in chase.
    Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2021
  • To say her rise through the ranks at the storied studio was supersonic would be an understatement.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Airlines' moves to go supersonic echo a previous attempt to do the same.
    Tom Costello, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Scholl said Overture’s gull wings will be shaped for both supersonic and subsonic flight modes.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 June 2023
  • The remnants of the plane, a supersonic midrange bomber aircraft, are scattered across Ms. Hrebnyeva’s yard.
    New York Times, 30 May 2022
  • The Soviet air force had left behind in Ukraine at least a hundred of the supersonic bombers and potentially as many as 200.
    David Axe, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Under current rules, planes must stay below the speed of sound while traveling over land but can use supersonic speeds over oceans.
    Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Browne made his remarks beneath the T-38 Talon supersonic trainer flown by Jackie Cochran, the first woman to break the sound barrier.
    Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • He is best known for his 1958 theory of the existence of solar wind — a supersonic flow of particles off the sun's surface.
    Kathleen Foody, Chron, 16 Mar. 2022
  • With the power of supersonic flight — planes that can fly faster than the speed of sound — such a fantastic notion could soon become a reality.
    Tatyana Woodall, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The launch prompted the U.S. to send a pair of supersonic bomber planes soaring across the region, in an effort to show up the North Korean military strategy.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 5 Nov. 2022
  • There is, of course, nothing new about flying supersonic.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The looped video, shot from a military aircraft flying at supersonic speeds against the Earth’s rotation, shows the sun over a watery horizon.
    Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2022

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