How to Use pressurize in a Sentence

pressurize

verb

• A pump is used to pressurize the fuel.
• Don't let them pressurize you to do anything you don't want to do.
• The system that pressurizes the airplane's cabin failed to operate correctly.
• Maaz adds that pressurized air from the APU helps start the main engines.
  — Jennifer Prince, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2024
• The gas is used to pressurize the craft’s propulsion system.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• Due to a lack of atmosphere in the moon, the suit is pressurized with 4.3 square pounds of oxygen per square inch.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 17 July 2019
• That’s the part — known as the door plug — that blew off on Flight 1282 when the plane’s interior was pressurized.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
• The GrowGreen hose starts out at 17 feet long and once pressurized, expands to full length.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 16 July 2019
• In the Falcon 9, helium is the gas of choice to pressurize the propellant tank.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• Each Coke bottle serves as a reservoir for air, pressurized by a bike pump.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2016
• The fan pressurizing the planting system came to life again.
  — Ted Genoways, New Republic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Other equipment would pressurize the gas and send it down a borehole.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
• With the suit still pressurized, Eustace couldn’t extend his arms overhead to grab the handles that controlled the chute.
  — Laura Parker, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• The capsule is also pressurized, so it’s meant for passengers to be able to walk around.
  — Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
• The upper stage shell was thinned almost to the thickness of a soda can, just barely strong enough to keep the crew cabin pressurized.
  — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
• These suits are designed for liftoff and descents, and can be pressurized in case of an emergency.
  — Wired, 16 Oct. 2019
• To fire the Super Draco engines, the system is rapidly pressurized to 2,400 pounds per square inch.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 July 2019
• Air is pressurized by an electric engine for the brake system.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2018
• Some experts warned if the cave where the boys are trapped is pressurized, then drilling a hole could simply have sucked water levels higher.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• So what happens to your body when an airplane cabin is not pressurized?
  — Aditi Shrikant, Vox, 21 Sep. 2018
• The gas is used to pressurize the Starliner’s propulsion system.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
• Engineers tightened bolts in a flange where the leak was detected, pressurized the lines and then ran tests to determine if the leak was still present.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 17 May 2024
• And the simpler kit seemed to force the adhesive deeper into the crack faster by using the plunger as a piston to rapidly pressurize the system.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2018
• But warm beer and warm weather don't mix, so keep things cool and carbonated with this uKeg pressurized growler.
  — Popular Mechanics Shop Team, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2018
• In the 1800s, the site, which includes early Erie Canal locks, was used for a pioneering system that fed and pressurized the city's fire hydrants.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 12 June 2023
• If the oxygen cylinders run out, this ventilator can use air in the cabin and pressurize it.
  — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 30 Mar. 2020
• Your canner will pressurize during the next 3 to 5 minutes.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
• Helium is used to pressurize fuel for the thrusters, and a faulty rubber seal was suspected in the initial leak.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 29 June 2024
• Japan Airlines, at the time, typically pressurized the inside cabin to about 8.9 pounds of force per square inch.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• Helium is used to pressurize some of the vehicle’s thrusters, which help the spacecraft stay oriented in space, and problems with some of the helium spilling out delayed this crewed test mission even before takeoff.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024