How to Use copter in a Sentence

copter

noun

• The Navy plans to buy 200 of the copters known as the King Stallion.
  — courant.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The pilot kept the rotors on to hold the copter on the icy shelf.
  — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• The red belly of the camera copter flashed among the trees.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 4 July 2018
• Tur spent a good part of her childhood in and around the copter, too.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2017
• Taking their cues from the Bronco, the copters make their first drops on the fire at 3:23.
  — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Dec. 2017
• The glitch occurred when the copter tried switching from pre-flight mode to flight mode.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
• The final scene is Prescott being whisked away in the Jones copter to return to shore as the sun sets.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 May 2020
• Then the copter shot panned back westward, without even a glimpse of my town.
  — Alice Anderson, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2017
• The small copter -- its main body will be about the size of a softball -- will be attached to the rover's belly pan.
  — Jason Hanna, CNN, 12 May 2018
• The divers also tracked down Don Sanborn, the copter’s pilot.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• The copter in the background was branded with the film's title as well as the actor's name in large letters.
  — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 4 May 2022
• The gusts scattered shingles in the air as the crew hoisted the terrified teen into the copter.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• Its copter headlights blaze, and its blades generate winds that sweep the house.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017
• Under the glare of his copter’s searchlight, the pilot could see the sub’s hull was awash as the crew clung to the steel safety cable.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
• The autonomous copter climbed 10 feet, whirred in the alien air for 30 seconds at that height, and then touched down.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
• The first copter ride was after a downhill training crash before the 2006 Turin Games.
  — Pat Graham, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2019
• The copter crashed into the top of a hill with such force that some of the wreckage was thrown over the crest, NTSB investigators said at the time.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 18 June 2020
• When the copter arrived, Faid was meeting with his brother in the visiting room.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2018
• The copter has twin turbo shaft engines with four blades along a tail rotor and a retractable landing gear.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 26 Jan. 2020
• Several neighbors rushed to the copter's twisted wreckage, and two of them pulled out the pilot, Faubion said.
  — Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Details of the tragic copter crash that claimed the lives of Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others are still coming to light.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 27 Jan. 2020
• The thoughts required to operate the copter are pretty simple.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2013
• In this video, part 10 of a continuing series, the DIY eight-prop copter finally gets off the ground with a pilot at the helm.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2016
• Somehow his seat had become separated from the copter with him still in it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• The copter could take flight another four times during its mission.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• The clouds hung low, so the copter hugged close to the sandstone cliffs that rise from this green island, which gets about 80 inches of rain and 60 inches of snowfall every year.
  — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2021
• The copter also sports twin blades that rotate 10 times faster than helicopter’s here on our planet.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 11 May 2018
• A few hours later, the black copters would return to pick up the samples and take them to a laboratory in Richmond.
  — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 15 Mar. 2020
• But the method can be unstable, and the copter could crash during air disturbances or imbalances.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2023
• His fear of heights freezes him on a suspension bridge in the Costa Rican rainforest, and terrifies him during a desert copter flight in Utah.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024