How to Use slipstream in a Sentence

slipstream

noun

• The motorcycle was riding the truck's slipstream.
• With the rear being 50 mm (2 inches) narrower than at the front, the rear wheels roll in the slipstream of the front wheels.
  — Peter Lyon, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• Only Spurs hung on, gasping for air, in the slipstream.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Caught by the slipstream, the vapor is first pushed back then sucked forward as the pressure wave pushed ahead of the truck passes by.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2017
• But mostly the slipstream and your paddle carry you on.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Andino is a bona fide surfing star, in the slipstream of Florence, who is about 18 months older.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• Steering is by means of twin rudders in the pusher prop's slipstream, aided by skirt-lifting rods in the hull.
  — Wallace Cloud, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2021
• The Darkside record was an opportunity to attempt to shut off his brain and lose himself in the slipstream.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
• Maybe their immune systems are cranking so hard to fight off the one that the others get caught in the immunological slipstream.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021
• Books coverage now rises or falls in the slipstream of social media.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• Johnson is credited with discovering drafting — using the slipstream of the car in front of you on the track to keep up or slingshot past.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2019
• One study that seized global attention showed how the virus can linger ominously in a jogger’s slipstream.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
• This quickly proved that the best efforts of the car's heater and audio system were quickly overwhelmed by the buffeting slipstream at any speed beyond 40 mph.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 25 May 2021
• The first big spill was caused by a fan who brandished a cardboard sign and leaned into the path of veteran rider Tony Martin, who fell off his bike and took many others down in his slipstream.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
• The team of bigger, broader pacesetters rides single file to create a slipstream for Cavendish, taking turns on the front and setting a furious pace.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• The manually adjustable windshield is just a bit short for my liking, requiring me to slump to get my helmet below the slipstream, or else slow down.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
• Megan Thee Stallion’s entry into the meme slipstream has been slightly less direct, but no less effective.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• Few artists can navigate the slipstream between pop and hardcore like San Francisco’s Tony Molina.
  — Ron Hart, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2022
• And, that, whatever the condition of my mind and heart, this great action rescues me from that modern slipstream of the self-consciousness, even my own mediocre, suburban dad life.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Apr. 2021
• For decades, the world-history movement has quietly advanced in the slipstream of higher-profile changes in curriculum.
  — Stanley Kurtz, National Review, 16 Dec. 2021
• The 28-year-old shimmied past one player, dropped her shoulder to move past the next, and accelerated away, leaving three Australian defenders in her slipstream.
  — Chris Scott, CNN, 15 Apr. 2018
• Whenever Vettel has driven an F1 car, history seems to have followed in his slipstream.
  — Matias Grez and Amanda Davies, CNN, 31 Aug. 2017
• Then Mueller-Korenek released her cable tether, pedaling the final three miles on her own power, but tucked into the dragster’s slipstream.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
• The runners will also employ careful drafting behind pacers, who run ahead for short periods of time to create a smooth slipstream for the competitors.
  — National Geographic, 4 May 2017
• Crosswinds are more complicated: approach the lead athlete from the upwind side, quickly pass, and then shift position to the lee side to keep your slipstream from hitting the other rider or runner.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 17 Apr. 2020
• Either his job as head of the Trump transition team was largely an honorary position, like riding the pace car at Indy, or The Choirboy is sprinting for the lifeboat, trailing a slipstream of mendacity behind him.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 May 2017
• Riding a bicycle in the slipstream of a vehicle has obvious wind-cutting benefits.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
• Quick with a label, critics have called Carroll a magic realist, a slipstream novelist, a writer of supernatural thrillers and the creator of modern fairy tales.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• The good doctor's g-load recommendations were surely exceeded as pyrotechnics blasted a hole in the canopy and rocket motors fired the seat and its terrified denizen out into the slipstream high above the French countryside.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 13 Apr. 2020
• From dropping back and offering their leader a slipstream to catching and reeling in breakaway riders, none of their physical exertions are for personal gain.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 19 July 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024