How to Use airbag in a Sentence

airbag

noun
  • Currently, cars already use air in airbags and some seating.
    Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2018
  • Below is a partial list of vehicles with airbag components still on back order.
    Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 June 2018
  • How can Autopilot follow in the path of the airbag, which killed some people, but saved many more, and is now ubiquitous?
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 17 May 2018
  • Older vehicles put their occupants at higher risk since the age of the airbag is one of the contributing factors.
    Matthew Dolan, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The side airbag does not deploy and the door opens allowing the dummy's head to go outside the SUV.
    CBS News, 12 June 2018
  • Bodies and debris catapulted forward as the driver’s airbag exploded in his face.
    Keith Gave, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2018
  • California has the highest number of defective airbags.
    CBS News, 12 June 2018
  • The Air Zoom Pegasus sole is made from a combination of foam and small airbags that provide extra cushion and spring.
    refinery29.com, 18 May 2018
  • In the test, the passenger crash dummy's head in the 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee hits the dashboard through the airbag.
    CBS News, 12 June 2018
  • Officers found the vehicle with significant body damage, impact damage to the windshield and airbag deployments, and initially believed the scene to have been a crash.
    Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2018
  • The Pittsburgh native damaged his Mercedes G-Wagon when the vehicle struck a power pole, causing the airbags to deploy.
    Nerisha Penrose, Billboard, 22 May 2018
  • The car rolled over and the airbags deployed in the crash.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The airbag must be turned off or the child seat must be placed in the rear.
    Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The car rolled over and airbags deployed, the NPS said.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The car’s axle was bent and an airbag had been deployed.
    cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The van's tires were blown and an airbag had been deployed.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The safest place for the convertible car seat is in the back seat, away from airbags.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 11 July 2023
  • Japan has been a leader of airbag use for more than a decade.
    New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The airbag in your car is based on the same principle to keep you safe—or safer—in a crash.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The blow crunched the hood of the Nissan and set off the airbags, but no underride had occurred.
    A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
  • The suspect also stole the airbag, horn and $5 in coins from the vehicle.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 28 May 2024
  • The windshield shattered, the airbags exploded, and the car filled with the smell of fuel.
    Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • At the house, the officer found the car to be disabled, its airbag deployed.
    cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The air bag is five to eight times the size of a driver airbag, depending on the side of the vehicle.
    Mark Phelan, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • An airbag pack to increase your chances of staying near the surface of an avalanche.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Meanwhile, Greene said, there are more vehicles on the road with the same faulty airbag.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 22 June 2023
  • Coffay crawled out from behind and airbag and ran into the woods.
    Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The steering wheel jerked to the right, then to the left, and the airbags deployed seconds before the car jumped the curb and slammed into the business.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The airbag had exploded and deployed black powder that hung in the air.
    Ariana Giorgi, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The vehicle had damage to the front passenger's side and the airbags were deployed.
    Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2024

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