How to Use unpowered in a Sentence
unpowered
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Then, the friction of the unpowered engine slows the car without the driver having to use the brakes.
— Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 16 June 2023 -
All planes —powered and unpowered —are controlled by the four forces of flight: lift, weight, thrust, and drag.
— Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The first unpowered flight in Alaska took place 23 years earlier.
— David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022 -
Since unpowered wires cannot arc, mapping these breaks can give a general idea of the fire’s progression.
— Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2011 -
Residents came by to share the contents of their freezers before breakfast sausages and pork chops spoiled in their unpowered homes.
— Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021 -
Ashby earlier this year broke a land-speed record in an unpowered vessel with a sailing rig on wheels.
— Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023 -
In mid-November the world watched spellbound as Philae fell for seven hours in an unpowered descent to the tumbling comet.
— The Editors, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2014 -
The barge is unarmed, unpowered, and will probably never leave port.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 July 2021 -
The Starship will fall to an unpowered, destructive splashdown near Hawaii.
— William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023 -
Some leftover ice cream has turned liquid in unpowered freezers.
— Phil McCausland, NBC News, 23 Apr. 2022 -
But all over the building, there are sinks and bathtubs that don’t drain, unpowered smoke detectors and endlessly flickering lights.
— Frank Shyong Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022 -
The initial autogiro required a horse or a working group of several people to wrap a rope around the rotor, generating a spin and unpowered lift.
— Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023 -
The action here, and throughout these two episodes, is something of a mixed bag — and thus a bit disappointing, given that this is a show about two unpowered heroes who have to get by entirely on their physical skills.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2021 -
The passengers will need to return to their seats after a few minutes as the craft reorients and begins to interact with the increasing density of the atmosphere and then glides to an unpowered landing.
— John Antczak, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2020 -
For complete privacy, the microphones in all the Denon Home speakers can remain disabled and unpowered unless users specifically choose to enable the feature.
— Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021 -
Then the glide vehicles divert to a flatter trajectory—either exiting the atmosphere or staying just within it—and sail on unpowered.
— Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2022 -
Only recently have scientists figured out that the leakiness is the secret to dandelions’ success at long-distance unpowered flight.
— Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019 -
Back in the late 1980s, a Canadian engineer called Tad McGeer built a remarkable pair of mechanical legs that were unpowered, had no actuators, no sensors and no computer control.
— The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023 -
Both powered and unpowered mounts come in a range of installation styles, including suction cups, air-conditioning vent clips, and mounts with semi-permanent adhesive pads.
— Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2022 -
This will bring extremely low temperatures to the planet that, according to JPL, could cause irreparable damage to the batteries of an unpowered rover like Opportunity.
— Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2019 -
Last June, a research group in China published details of another unpowered hip exoskeleton that improved running economy by 7.2 percent.
— Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 22 Jan. 2022 -
While the reusable booster heads back to landing on a nearby pad, the crew capsule will continue upward on an unpowered, ballistic trajectory, reaching a maximum altitude of just above 62 miles three-and-a-half minutes after takeoff.
— William Harwood, CBS News, 19 July 2021 -
While the reusable booster heads back to landing on a nearby pad, the crew capsule continues upward on an unpowered, ballistic trajectory, reaching a maximum altitude of just above 65 miles three-and-a-half minutes after takeoff.
— William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2022 -
Ballistic missiles, by comparison, fly a largely unpowered parabolic trajectory—like that of a fly ball coming off a baseball bat—after being propelled by an initial rocket boost.
— Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 2 June 2022
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