propeller

Example Sentences

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We were running this airlift, like small propeller planes with eight seats, trying to get more than 100 people back to the mainland before twilight hits because they don’t have lighting on the runway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

People see it and think it is a joke, or they cannot believe that the propeller is the only means of propulsion, or they think it is meant to be a flying car.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

The aircraft involved in this incident was a Beechcraft B200 Super King Air, a small, twin-engine propeller plane that has been in production since the 1970s.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

In 1980, the Warrior was seized by the Spanish navy, who removed a thrust bearing from the propeller shaft and held the ship for $142,000 bail.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

The noise his crew was interpreting as that of enemy torpedoes, Herrick suggested, could actually be coming from the American ship’s own propeller.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin