How to Use rotor in a Sentence

rotor

noun

• The pilot kept the rotors on to hold the copter on the icy shelf.
  — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• 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 brakes are hydraulic disks at the front and vented rotors at the rear.
  — New Atlas, 6 Jan. 2025
• For disc brakes that means pads and rotors, and for drum brakes that means shoes and drums.
  — Matt Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018
• 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
• In the video above, the laser burns through the plastic arm holding one of the four sets of rotors on a quadcopter.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Chopper would be about the size of an SUV, with six rotors, each with six blades.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The sound of the vast rotors rippled through the air tossing up the lagoon’s waters in a misty haze.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The main and tail rotors on the aircraft are the danger zones on the ground, with the pilot standing nearby the whirling blades.
  — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 16 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Video of the event shows the tank seen from close range by an FPV (distinguished by rotor blades in the field of view at :02- :05 seconds).
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
• 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
• One of its rotor blades broke off during touchdown and was flung away to one side (far left).
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
• Each line handles one part of motor production, such as machining of the motor housing and rotor shaft.
  — New Atlas, 16 Jan. 2025
• Experts recommend periodically using the mechanical brakes to polish the rotors and to dry the brake pads and rotors.
  — Mark Maynard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2025