How to Use undercarriage in a Sentence

undercarriage

noun

• There was a problem with the plane's undercarriage.
• That’s the time to wash your car and make sure the undercarriage gets sprayed, says Nuber.
  — Tom Krisher, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• During the attempt to brake the plane, the undercarriage caught fire as the aircraft ran off the end of the runway.
  — Mandi Albright, ajc, 5 June 2018
• The car’s undercarriage was perched atop a low wall and its back wheel was lifted off the ground.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
• Water droplets can rust the grates, as well as the undercarriage of the grill itself.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2022
• Salt on the road can cause erosion in the undercarriage.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Feb. 2022
• Cars would ride so close to the ground that any small shift in weight caused their undercarriages to scrape against the pavement.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• The bus’s front end appeared to have torn off, and its undercarriage was ripped away.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 17 May 2018
• Clean the undercarriage with a sprinkler Don't feel like going to the car wash?
  — NBC News, 4 Jan. 2018
• The agents then looked in the car’s undercarriage, where 20 packages of meth were hidden.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2022
• That would allow the tailpipe to hit the car’s undercarriage, or something else near it.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2022
• That’s the sound of beads caught up in the drivetrain of Toler’s truck, slapping the undercarriage as the wheels turn.
  — al, 28 Feb. 2022
• Blue smoke rose from the tires for a few seconds before flames burst from the undercarriage and engulfed the car.
  — Katie Akin, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2019
• The collision between the bus and dump truck caused the school bus to rip apart, tearing off the front end and undercarriage.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 17 May 2018
• The accident left the school bus on its side, torn from its undercarriage and with its front end sheared off.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• The front end of the bus, which had 38 students and 7 adults on board, appeared to be crushed or ripped off, and it was sheared off from its undercarriage.
  — Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 17 May 2018
• Many of the heavier pieces of the undercarriage were secured with old leather belts from Goodwill.
  — Chuck Wilcoxen, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
• What to Consider: Their isn't a ton of space in the undercarriage for storage.
  — Chris Abell, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2023
• What Lies Beneath: A thin and darkened undercarriage with enough give to fold (enabling the walk-and-eat).
  — Arthur Bovino, Bon Appetit, 12 Mar. 2018
• These rocks don’t seem, in this reporter’s opinion, to lend themselves to the naked undercarriage.
  — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023
• Police said the man was in the undercarriage of an inbound Kenya Airways flight to Heathrow Airport.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• The undercarriage is firm enough to serve the car well in athletic contexts yet doesn’t beat you up on rough pavement.
  — Al Haas, Philly.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• At a certain point, pain from the wound had faded, but my undercarriage felt like it was made of lace, unable to bear the weight straining against it from above.
  — Frances F. Denny, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 July 2018
• The cat had apparently clung to the undercarriage the entire way.
  — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2017
• The crash left the bus lying on its side on the guardrail of Interstate 80 in Mount Olive, its undercarriage and front end sheared off and its steering wheel exposed.
  — David Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• Turn on the narrow setting to clean your furry pal’s undercarriage with less risk of misting yourself in the face.
  — Popular Science, 18 Mar. 2020
• So a crook with the right tools and know-how can, within minutes, cut the catalytic converter from the undercarriage of car.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2024
• The station’s yellow delineator posts were damaged, as well as the undercarriage of the car, for which a winch-out was required from a tow truck to get it off the high curb.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2022
• With a ground clearance that puts the stick-axle Jeep Gladiator to shame, the R1T coasts safely over small boulders with nary a scrape to the undercarriage.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 29 Sep. 2021
• The laptop under the lid mimics the undercarriage but has a smaller series of diagonal vents along the top of the deck for air intake.
  — PCMAG, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024