Examples of undercarriage in a Sentence

There was a problem with the plane's undercarriage.

Recent Examples on the Web The practical special-effects crew made the real vehicle flip over, while the visual-effects team digitally created its undercarriage (rather than use a van with a real engine) and the shockwave’s impact in the grass and air. — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021 Also, don’t get lulled into a sense of complacency with one of these machines and forget that its undercarriage needs to be cleaned and its lightweight steel blades sharpened or replaced. — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2021 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 To be fair, there was some undercarriage scraping and a few scratches were added to our rig's rocker panels. — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 17 June 2021 The first practical retractable undercarriage was used by the Dayton Wright R.B. 1 racer, a Pulitzer Trophy racing contestant in 1920. — Walter J. Boyne And Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2021 It’s built using the actual undercarriage of a 1950s Boston streetcar and operated by a conductor in throwback garb. — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 23 May 2021 Now his pizza camper lay on its side, totaled, wiring and kitchen equipment spilling out of the undercarriage like runny burrata. — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 10 May 2021 As the vehicle was being loaded onto a tow truck, the truck’s driver noticed a small nylon bag hanging from the undercarriage, police said. — Derek Hawkins, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2021

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