How to Use yaw in a Sentence

yaw

noun

• Sensors measure the pitch and yaw of the plane.
• The airplane's rudder is used to control yaw.
• Bob Connolly bounces in the front seat, rolling with the pitch and yaw.
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• Every man in the ship would have an intuitive sense of the weather after rising, feeling the pitch and yaw of the ship in the harsh seas.
  — James G. Stavridis, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• This allows the mount to still control the altitude angle, while the drone’s movement controls the yaw (moving left or right).
  — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2016
• This creates a steering effect on the rear axle, increasing yaw to help a car rotate through a corner.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2020
• The instructor, and soon Coleman, handled a large wooden stick to control the plane’s pitch and roll, and moved a rudder bar with his feet to control its yaw.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
• One had the hepatitis B virus, and the other carried the bacterium that causes yaws, a disease in the same family as syphilis.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 30 Apr. 2020
• This yaw assist — or torque vectoring — helps the Enclave steer with more stability and less front-tire scrub.
  — Malcolm Gunn, courant.com, 17 May 2018
• That's a much more gradual process than actually just damping down the [yaw] motion.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2019
• Even when her dragon yaws, pitches, and rolls after being hit by an arrow shot from Qyburn's ballista, the dainty dragon queen hangs tough in the face of the forces of physics trying to pry her loose.
  — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2019
• In 2012, researchers realized that a single dose of antibiotics could treat yaws and break the transmission cycle.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
• In low speed flight yaw was controlled by varying the turboprops' propeller pitch via rudder pedals.
  — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
• With the optional trailer-tow group, the Trackhawk can pull 7,200 pounds; selecting Tow Mode modifies torque delivery and sets the suspension to counter pitch and yaw.
  — Andy Mikonis, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• One communication dish handle will adjust pitch and the other yaw.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023
• The parents’ job is to find stimulating activities to engage their son over the gaping yaw that is summertime.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2017
• Windspeed, temperature, barometric pressure, the bullets yaw and the rotation of the earth would all need to be considered before pulling the trigger.
  — Author: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 June 2017
• Teams generally build vertical and horizontal stabilizers on the back of their subs with flaps to let the pilot control pitch and yaw.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2017
• The allowable rates of wheelspin and yaw are determined according to driving mode or, when in manual mode, by the driver via the instrument cluster.
  — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 29 Mar. 2018
• One of the men was afflicted with the virus that causes hepatitis B, and another had a bacterium that causes the skin infection yaws, a disease similar to syphilis.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2020
• Active yaw control, featuring a twin-clutch rear differential, keeps the Blazer level through the corners.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2019
• Conventional aircraft use a system of elevators, rudders, and ailerons to control their direction in the pitch, (up and down) yaw (left to right), and roll directions.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2017
• This firms up the suspension response and asks more of the electric motors, working together with the magnetic dampers to control yaw during cornering.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2020
• Aquarius's drumming hammers and spatters like a hailstorm, and the deranged buzzsaw of Koreman's distorted noise swirls, yaws, and lunges like a howling wind trying to tear the windows out of your house.
  — Philip Montoro, Chicago Reader, 29 May 2017
• Through this method, India became yaws-free in 2016, though the emergence of antibiotic resistance in the spirochete may complicate efforts.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
• Her own research has led her to suspect that the treponema bacteria originated in the New World, manifesting as yaws and spread through skin-to-skin contact exposed by a warm climate.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2018
• For future eradication campaigns, yaws and measles are both good potential targets.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
• This will provide no stability, specifically in yaw, or sway.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2017
• Another individual was infected with the bacterium Treponema pallidum pertenue that causes yaws, a chronic infection of skin, bone and cartilage.
  — Fox News, 1 May 2020
• Light Turbulence that momentarily causes slight, erratic changes in altitude and/or attitude (pitch, roll, yaw).
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2018

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