How to Use flying machine in a Sentence

flying machine

noun
  • In the towel was a very small bird that had managed to ground a 55-ton flying machine.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • Take a look at some of the flying machines and other gadgets and equipment that were at the event.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The flying machine itself is of the bi-plane order, with planes four and a half to five feet wide and twenty-six feet long.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Even great and ingenious things, like the first flying machine on Mars.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
  • At this point, Ginsburg would head to the chest press, leg extension, lat pull-down, cable row, and chest fly machines.
    Andrea Park, SELF, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Not if the Field’s sulking, life-size model of a Quetzalcoatlus, a winged predator the size of a Wright flying machine, has anything to say about it.
    Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The planes look like insects, and the film suggests that’s one way that a flying machine, in another planetary sphere, might have evolved.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Using the rope on a cable fly machine, choose a starting weight that will challenge you (about 30 pounds, but adjust as needed).
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The goal is to make their flying machine look like an eagle while incorporating the colors red, white and blue.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • And now, coming onto the radar screen, are flying machines that do not exactly look like your father’s Buick with wings.
    Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Here are a few highlights of my discussion with Franky about his latest flying machines.
    Nick Goddard, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2016
  • This isn’t a new drone prototype for the military; it’s a flying machine engineered by nature: the blowfly.
    Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2014
  • There is another flying machine already in the works, the Dragonfly mission that will fly on Titan in 2036.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2021
  • On the weekends, the crew has been constructing their flying machine inside a warehouse on the company's campus.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • The English Channel was shrouded in a cold and clammy fog; the small fabric-and-wood flying machine perched atop the Dover cliffs looked impossibly flimsy.
    Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 13 June 2022
  • Over the coming weeks, Perseverance will deploy the four-pound flying machine.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Cast out of the colony for his blunder, Flik enlists the aid of outsiders—non-ant bugs—and builds a great flying machine fashioned to fool the grasshoppers into thinking they’re being attacked by a bird.
    Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Starting in the late 15th century, for example, Leonardo da Vinci modeled his designs for a flying machine based on the wings of a bird or bat.
    Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Even a coyote won’t tangle with an armor plated turkey that resembles some kind of flying machine in a Star Wars movie.
    Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 July 2019
  • Consider the child who turns their wagon into a flying machine or the young entrepreneur who uses their wagon to collect rouge golf balls on the course and sell them to golfers.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Workhorse’s SureFly personal electric flying machine just took off for the first time.
    Alex Davies, WIRED, 8 May 2018
  • Many of Terrafugia’s competitors, though, are abandoning the idea of flying machines that can also drive.
    The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Many recalled a flying machine equipped with a powerful searchlight.
    Greg Eghigian, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
  • During one Dune scene in which Ferguson is trapped in a birdlike flying machine called an ornithopter, her terror was pushed to its white- knuckle limit.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Now researchers have taken it a step further, building a flying machine that is controlled by the operator's thoughts.
    Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2013
  • How this affects war in the air is a good question, but its implications for pilots and their flying machines is undeniable.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2019
  • Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
    Jennifer Bogo, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2018
  • Reichert and his fellow team leader Cameron Robertson have been working to design a human-powered flying machine for six years.
    Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2013
  • Initially, the idea of building a flying machine roughly 10 times the size of the largest airplane on Earth seems outlandish—but Hooker's arguments are logical.
    Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Pushing the technology further NASA already has big plans for flying machines on other worlds.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024

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