yaw

Example Sentences

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In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

"The investigation found that, in the prevailing circumstances, the loss of yaw control was irrecoverable," it said in its final report on the crash.

From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2023

Jackson is particularly proud of the clavicle, which can move forward and back as well as pitch, roll, and yaw.

From The Verge • May 4, 2022

Retro-jets firing, a yaw and sway as the vessel settled onto the lunar surface.

From Nature • Jun. 30, 2020

His daughter, writer Norah Christianson, remembers that he had “the body of a dancer, lithe and wiry and thin, everything in balance,” a physique ideally suited to the pitch and yaw of a horse’s withers.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand