How to Use thruster in a Sentence

thruster

noun

• Shep sighed and engaged the thrusters, revving the ship past light speed.
  — Sean McGowan, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024
• And the bow thrusters fore and aft might help save money on Xanax, too.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2020
• But first, a Phase Four thruster has to make it into space.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2018
• One of the thrusters had been installed in the wrong direction.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
• Finally, a thruster has to fire to put the car on the right orbital course.
  — Marcia Dunn, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018
• To do this, the probe fires its thrusters more than a dozen times a day to stay oriented.
  — Shannon Stirone, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• The main spacecraft fired its thrusters and set a course for the asteroid Apophis.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• About a mile above Mars, InSight will let go of the parachute and turn on some thrusters.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 23 Nov. 2018
• Spafford: In 18 years the five-pound thruster had never been used.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2019
• The force of that atom flying out the thruster propels its craft forward.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2017
• Putting thrusters on the tether wasn’t even the craziest idea.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
• It also sports bow and stern thrusters that make docking a breeze.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2024
• To top it off, bow and stern thrusters ensure docking is stress-free.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 May 2024
• The thrusters are retractable and take about four seconds to deploy.
  — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• Guided by radar, InSight will use the thrusters to slow down to a soft landing.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 23 Nov. 2018
• With enough warning, spacecraft can use onboard thrusters to get out of the way of a piece of space junk.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2018
• Without any thrusters to keep the ship flying, that’s now down to just 129 miles and falling fast.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 28 Mar. 2018
• And depending on how fast the air is blasting, the thrusters could pose risks to other cars on the road.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 16 June 2018
• Spacecraft equipped with the thruster could then fly very low orbits, around 124 miles up, for years on end.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2018
• That fuel and those thrusters add to a mission’s weight, and therefore its launch costs.
  — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
• The spacecraft still carried enough fuel to fire its thrusters and reach the object.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2018
• The craft has only a few major thruster firings left on its way to the station.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• This means the thruster forces do not have a zero torque arm and do indeed exert torques.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Dec. 2020
• The most recent problem with Voyager 1 is with one of the three thruster systems aboard.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 15 Sep. 2024
• The thruster’s two hydraulic cylinders will exert force on the clamp, pushing the pipe and MTBM through the mountain.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 July 2022
• The halves are equipped with small thrusters to help guide them back to Earth, as well as special parachutes to decrease the speed of the descent.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 13 July 2018
• Early missions tried harpoons and thrusters, and had a rough time.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2023
• Robert Goddard's early design put the thruster at the very top of the rocket with the fuel tank at the bottom.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Dec. 2020
• Instead of using thrusters, the robotic spacecraft will dip into the Earth's atmosphere to change its trajectory.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024
• The spacecraft leaked helium on its recent outward journey, and some of its thrusters failed — another black eye for a company that was once the stand-in for quality engineering.
  — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024