How to Use hydrofoil in a Sentence

hydrofoil

noun

• From our base in the small city of Salerno, travel by hydrofoil to Capri.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
• Flite says the battery for the hydrofoil lasts around an hour and a half before needing a recharge.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2024
• The challenge with a hydrofoil boat is that the wing is very much below the center of gravity of the hull.
  — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• The boat’s hulls lift out of the water on hydrofoils, allowing the boat to fly across the surface of the water at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour.
  — Roxanna Scott, USA TODAY, 29 May 2017
• On one of the long sides is a type of car on rails with a hydrofoil, essentially a wing that runs through the water.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• Half Moon Bay surfer begins a 2-month journey to Hawaii — on a hydrofoil.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 2021
• As a hydrofoil, the vehicle features blades, or vanes, that elevate the body of the boat for a smoother ride.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• Depending on the ride—the faster hydrofoil or the slower ferry—you’ll get to the island in 40 minutes to 1 hour.
  — Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2021
• The Navy had studied hydrofoil ship concepts for two decades.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2015
• All six of the Pegasus-class hydrofoils were retired in the early 1990s.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2016
• The hydrofoil acts like an airplane wing, lifting board and rider off the water.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Sydney is also just super active in her day-to-day (swipe right above to see her crush that hydrofoil board ride).
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 July 2023
• The vessels of the America's Cup deploy hydrofoils to reach ridiculous speeds.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2019
• Foiling, which — to simplify things a little — uses hydrofoils to lift the craft out of the water, which reduces drag and gets the craft going faster.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
• Jost says the boat can also be fitted with hydrofoils to improve seakeeping and range.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2024
• The Alte Volare is part of a growing trend of electric hydrofoil tenders, with both Navier and Candela producing designs in the past couple of years.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2022
• First an 80-ton hydrofoil sled will roll forward with the help of a cable and truck tires, producing the rickety sound made by a roller coaster at the beginning of its climb.
  — Dan Fitzpatrick, WSJ, 16 May 2019
• The 90-minute crossing from Corfu to Paxos on a stuffy hydrofoil was not quite the pleasure trip that the ferry company, Joy Cruises, had promised.
  — Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2021
• Any wear and tear from riding is now less visible, making your hydrofoil bike look newer for longer.
  — Mike Espindle, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• As the boat picks up speed, the water rushing over the top and bottom of the hydrofoil exert different amounts of pressure (in part thanks to a rule in physics called Bernoulli's Principle).
  — James Gaines, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
• When driving on land, Tice said the hydrofoil's vanes, or blades, retract into the vehicle so they can't be damaged by road objects like rocks.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• Mostly free of the drag imposed by sitting in liquid, a hydrofoil ship could go much faster than an ordinary vessel.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2015
• But as remote as the place feels, Favignana is only a half-hour hydrofoil ride from the Sicilian city of Trapani.
  — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2021
• On top of that, Noy is equipped with an all-electric propulsion system and the latest hydrofoil technology.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2022
• The hydrofoil heaves in response to tidal currents to turn the energy of tides into electrical current.
  — Shweta Narayan, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2019
• In addition to the long range and smooth ride, an electric hydrofoil is very quiet and also virtually wake-free.
  — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• But a hydrofoil—an underwater, carbon-fiber wing that lifts the hull clear of the water with little forward propulsion—cuts the drag to almost nothing.
  — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2021
• The America’s Cup competitors race $10 million space-age hydrofoils that are so fast their crews are required to wear helmets.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• On that bright January morning, the hydrofoil slipped through a narrow strait and the full immensity of the 3,200-square-mile lake — nearly half of which is in Bolivia, the rest in Peru — came into view.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The team is known for its innovation, like being the first to put an America’s Cup boat on hydrofoils, and was desperate for some kind of advantage.
  — Frank Bures, New York Times, 21 June 2017

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024