How to Use rotor in a Sentence

rotor

noun

• Those bolts clamp blades to the rotor and bear the stress of wind and motion.
  — The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• Put the pads and bracket back over the rotor and reinsert the bolts.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Most cars have a disk (called a rotor) attached to the wheel.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
• The Blackhawk has a rotor section on top and in the back.
  — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 4 June 2021
• For disc brakes, remember to bed in the new pads to the rotor.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2021
• The damage suggests the rotor hit the surface on the way down.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
• As a result, the helicopter’s rotor struck the flight deck and the aircraft crashed over the side of the ship.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
• The rotor roared above the Sonoran desert, kicking up dust and wind.
  — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 June 2018
• So the rotors push the air down and increase the air-momentum.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 4 July 2018
• But the wave rotor is not the only unique thing about Gosse’s spaceship.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 July 2024
• As the noise from the rotors faded, the firefight began.
  — Tristan McConnell, GQ, 16 Apr. 2018
• Strain on rotor shaft The torque meter measures the strain on the rotor shaft.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• As two of them jumped out to secure the aircraft, they were hit and killed by its rotor blades.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• Given the physics of flying there, a rotor that size can’t lift more than 4 pounds here on Earth.
  — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 10 Oct. 2019
• Forward thrust makes the rotor blades spin, and the blades alone provide lift and control.
  — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
• The crash was blamed on the tail rotor hitting a tree, the station reported.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 3 May 2018
• Its rotor, which provides lift, spins freely without the help of the engine.
  — Chris Boyette, CNN, 30 July 2023
• Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2020
• All but three of the cars built were powered by a Wankel, debuting with a three-rotor unit.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2022
• All four tail rotor blades were separated, and one of the blades was not found.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 24 July 2019
• The motion of wind rotates the large blades of the turbine, which in turn rotates a rotor in the square box at the top of the turbine, called a nacelle.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
• Mast removed the 1950s belts and rotors, refurbished them and put them back.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Huge Wilwood brakes, with 16-inch rotors and six-piston calipers up front, take care of stopping.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2024
• The middle portion of the blade is the sweet spot, generating enough excess thrust to keep the rotor spinning against the drags of the tip and the root.
  — Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2020
• The transmission was found with the rotor head and blades still attached about 20 feet from the main wreckage, the report said.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
• In the Smøla test, researchers painted one rotor on four turbines black in 2013.
  — Byian Mount, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
• And in spite of hitting a top speed of only 250 rpm, the fan is even more well-balanced than the rotor of a turbocharger.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
• In a hover, these props can balance out the torque from the main rotor much like a normal tail rotor does.
  — New Atlas, 24 July 2024
• Grid power or solar panels run a constantly spinning rotor inside a unit about the size of a dishwasher, converting the power into kinetic energy that can be reconverted back into electricity in the case of a power outage.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
• Shimano hydraulic brakes with 180mm rotors ensure crisp and effective stopping, and an integrated lighting system helps with visibility.
  — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025