How to Use turboprop in a Sentence

turboprop

noun

• Of course, the turboprop is hardly gone from U.S. skies.
  — Justin Bachman / Bloomberg, Time, 5 July 2018
• Jason Clarkson had likened the Plat-I to a small turboprop plane.
  — Greta Rybus, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
• There’s that long flight to Bali, followed by a turboprop hop to Sumba island, to the east.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2022
• My small turboprop plane whirred low through thick clouds.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• Six were across the bay at the airstrip, where during the fires the base’s C-12, twin-engine turboprops flew over the smoke as spotters for the firefighters.
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 28 Feb. 2018
• But the truth is that turboprops have evolved to be competitive with many jets.
  — Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
• But a turboprop Cessna Caravan with the same weight of kerosene can fly about 1,500 miles.
  — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2020
• The plane, a twin-turboprop, was able to land safely with only minor damage to its left wing, the report found.
  — Alan Levin, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• The 1967 twin turboprop plane was too heavily weighted toward the back, which was blamed on the pilot.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• The turboprop plane provided a way for the country to attack enemies from the air while on a tight budget.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• The plane was a Mitsubishi MU-2B, a turboprop with a pressurized cabin.
  — Alan Levin, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
• When turboprop aircraft force air behind the propeller blades, or when jets cause moist air to flow over the wings to provide lift, the air expands and cools.
  — Victoria Tang, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2010
• Horner, who was an avid pilot, died in 2015 while flying his turboprop aircraft.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2022
• The plane, a twin-engine turboprop, can carry as many as 78 passengers.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• Recent social media posts show Tabib in front of a King Air C90 turboprop aircraft.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• All 28 people on board an Antonov An-26 twin-engine turboprop died in a crash in Kamchatka in July.
  — Fox News, 11 Oct. 2021
• The jets could also reach markets that were beyond the reach of the turboprops, allowing airport hubs to expand their customer base.
  — Jeff Friedrich, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
• Putting it inside a carrier with the range of the turboprop in question extends that range by two orders of magnitude.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 24 Feb. 2021
• The first pass reportedly subjected the Navy aircrew to turbulence as the the jet passed in front of the lumbering, 1960s-era turboprop spy plane.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2018
• Bye argues that’s more than enough for the needs of the vast majority of turboprop operators.
  — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• For its inter-island shuttles, the carrier uses ATR turboprops, all of which are about four years old.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
• The Piaggio, launched in the 1980s as a twin turboprop that seats two pilots and seven passengers, was Britton-Harr’s answer.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2022
• For example, each plane, from the turboprop regional jet to the 747, behaves differently in the wind.
  — Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
• The airline is among the world’s largest operators of Q400 turboprop planes, with a smaller fleet of Embraer regional jets.
  — Charlotte Ryan, Bloomberg.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• Reflections of turboprop panes flit across the building’s mirrored panes.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020
• The turboprop Twin Otter aircraft lost contact with the airport tower close to landing in an area of deep river gorges and mountaintops.
  — Time, 29 May 2022
• Crashes remain uncommon in the area, with the last reported crash occurring in 2001 when a twin-engine turboprop crashed a mile and a half short of the Beaver Island airport.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 14 Nov. 2021
• Until about 1998, smaller airports were served either by larger jets, which were oversized for these markets, or turboprops, which flew slow and not as far.
  — Jeff Friedrich, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
• As a regional business option, the turboprop remains a go-to favorite.
  — Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
• The airline had also initially said 60 passengers and six crew were on board the twin-engined turboprop ATR 72 that was flying to the southwestern city of Yasuj.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024