How to Use unpressurized in a Sentence
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Their 20-hour flight in the unpressurized, noisy cabin led to a nine-hour drive back home.
—New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
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Tucked within the Dragon’s trunk — the unpressurized cylindrical structure that rides on the back of the capsule during flight — is a new dock for the ISS.
—Loren Grush, The Verge, 24 July 2019
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With the test flight planned for the first half of 2021, Space Perspective will loft an unpressurized vehicle sized like Neptune along its planned flight profile.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2020
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One of the most significant events of the return came when the trunk, the unpressurized module that is covered on one half by solar arrays, separated from the capsule.
—Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2020
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In unpressurized rovers like the LTV, mission duration is limited by how long the oxygen in each astronaut’s spacesuit lasts.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022
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The cabin was unpressurized, unheated, and could only hold one pilot.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2018
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King’s original idea was to fly a handful of small, unpressurized six- to 12-passenger planes in an on-demand air taxi service, aimed at day-tripping Texas businessmen.
—Dan Reed, Forbes, 17 June 2021
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The Artemis mission also has plans for an unpressurized rover, like what was previously used on Apollo missions, where astronauts could go for day trips in spacesuits.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2023
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The Dragon trunk provides power to the spacecraft during flight from its solar panels and also houses unpressurized cargo.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2022
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It was once hired by a law firm to determine if tennis balls perform differently after being shipped in an unpressurized aircraft cargo hold.
—Mark Synnott, Wired, 13 Apr. 2021
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Crews have fanned out around New Orleans to test for potentially dangerous coliform bacteria that can seep into unpressurized pipes from the substrate.
—Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 20 Sep. 2017
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The airship boasts an unpressurized cabin, and is built to withstand high and low temperatures, strong winds and even lightning strikes, to the same regulatory standards as other passenger aircraft, says HAV.
—Jack Guy, CNN, 27 May 2021
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The Dragon has compartments for pressurized and unpressurized cargo, wherein the experiments will arrive and depart the space station.
—Robin Goist, cleveland.com, 19 July 2019
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That’s all fine in a neutral, unpressurized environment that’s harmonious.
—Jenn Lofgren, Forbes, 4 May 2022
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The company’s Natrium plant will use a simpler and less expensive system of unpressurized coolant and vents not dependent on electricity to halt fission during an emergency.
—Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2022
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Solar Impulse 2—and its predecessor, Solar Impulse 1—could only hold one person (the pilot) in its unheated and unpressurized refrigerator-sized cockpit; its single seat doubles as a toilet.
—Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2018
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Because Natrium sodium coolant is unpressurized, the reactor requires a smaller containment structure than a conventional reactor.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2020
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