How to Use pressure suit in a Sentence

pressure suit

noun

• Hoping for the best, Hurley and Behnken donned their pressure suits and headed for the launch pad around 1:20 p.m.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 28 May 2020
• Wearing a pressure suit and strapped into the plane, Crawford then did far more than observe.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• SpaceX techs will help the astronauts into their one-piece, two-layer pressure suits.
  — Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2020
• Powered by two Pratt & Whitney J58 turboramjets, the jet could fly faster than Mach 3 and climb so high that the crew needed to wear pressure suits so as not to pass out.
  — Erik Schechter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2015
• SpaceX techs will also help the astronauts into their one-piece, two-later pressure suits.
  — Fox News, 26 May 2020
• It is piloted by a single human who must wear a full pressure suit, like an astronaut.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• As the pilot, Engle would arrive shortly after sunrise to don a pressure suit and ensure the integrity of its seals.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
• Being sealed up in a full pressure suit and strapped into an ejection seat for 11 hours is definitely not for everyone.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 4 Sep. 2019
• The ultimate solution involved using a piece of cardboard, a plastic bag, a hose from a pressure suit, duct tape and a sock to connect the command module scrubbers.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
• Turkish sailors practiced with a new pressure suit—resembling a cross between Iron Man and the Michelin Man—in which a diver can move at depths where a person would normally be crushed to death.
  — Julian E. Barnes, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2017
• One suit, known at the Orion Crew Survival System, looks similar to the orange pressure suits space shuttle astronauts wore during launch and landing.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2019
• To him, the most intriguing scenes from the second film portray Maverick wearing a pressure suit and flying what looks like a hypersonic airplane.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2022
• The cockpit was plunged into darkness and the cabin depressurized, triggering his pressure suit to inflate.
  — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2013
• The uniform was a pressure suit to protect Mercury astronauts during launch and reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2022
• Amid the aerial splendors, there is also a glimpse of Maverick donning a mysterious high altitude pressure suit, which raises the flying stakes.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
• Scientists there developed pressure suits used in the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2019
• Exasperated, Shepard had little choice but to relieve himself in his pressure suit.
  — Ben Evans, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2021
• Will my descendants someday put on a pressure suit and protective gear, walk out an airlock into a rusty landscape and butterscotch sky, and see a phenomenon like this towering above them?
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2012
• Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent atmospheric pressure—have evolved from pressure suits for pilots in high-altitude planes to ones that can keep astronauts alive in the near-vacuum conditions of space.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Kittinger has been reportedly instrumental to the construction of these new full pressure suits, providing his 50 years of experience of the physiological effects of near-space.
  — Jonathan Doyle, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2010

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024