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

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024