How to Use copter in a Sentence

copter

noun

• Tur spent a good part of her childhood in and around the copter, too.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2017
• The pilot kept the rotors on to hold the copter on the icy shelf.
  — John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• Of course, aerial drones don't walk, so the copter can't count its steps like an ant.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 18 July 2024
• Then the copter shot panned back westward, without even a glimpse of my town.
  — Alice Anderson, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2017
• The glitch occurred when the copter tried switching from pre-flight mode to flight mode.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
• Its copter headlights blaze, and its blades generate winds that sweep the house.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017
• The copter could take flight another four times during its mission.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• The small copter -- its main body will be about the size of a softball -- will be attached to the rover's belly pan.
  — Jason Hanna, CNN, 12 May 2018
• This was a ten or twenty thousand dollar copter a few years ago and flying those took a great deal of skill.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2014
• Somehow his seat had become separated from the copter with him still in it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• Migrants, some wearing shorts and flip-flops, clung to their rescuers as they were pulled up into the copter.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2023
• The copter then returns to its base, so the probe can be removed and its contents analyzed.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2024
• The Easter Bunny will fly in via copter, then hand out eggs to children.
  — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
• The copter has twin turbo shaft engines with four blades along a tail rotor and a retractable landing gear.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 26 Jan. 2020
• That engine takes the copter to a cruising speed of a 62 mph (100 km/h).
  — Ben Coxworth october 21, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2025
• The divers also tracked down Don Sanborn, the copter’s pilot.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• The copter in the background was branded with the film's title as well as the actor's name in large letters.
  — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 4 May 2022
• Despite Mars' very thin atmosphere, the copter was able to zoom around on its carbon fiber blades.
  — Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2024
• The thoughts required to operate the copter are pretty simple.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2013
• The gusts scattered shingles in the air as the crew hoisted the terrified teen into the copter.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• The Navy plans to buy 200 of the copters known as the King Stallion.
  — courant.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The final scene is Prescott being whisked away in the Jones copter to return to shore as the sun sets.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 May 2020
• When the copter arrived, Faid was meeting with his brother in the visiting room.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2018
• In the copter on the way back, CT and Kate chat about the upcoming roundtable.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• Under the glare of his copter’s searchlight, the pilot could see the sub’s hull was awash as the crew clung to the steel safety cable.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
• The copter also sports twin blades that rotate 10 times faster than helicopter’s here on our planet.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 11 May 2018
• This caused all four blades to snap at their weakest points, while the resulting vibrations tore the remainder of one blade from the copter.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2024
• Several neighbors rushed to the copter's twisted wreckage, and two of them pulled out the pilot, Faubion said.
  — Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• After maneuvering away from the drone, the copter’s tail hit a bush or a tree as the instructor attempted to land.
  — Alan Levin, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
• The autonomous copter climbed 10 feet, whirred in the alien air for 30 seconds at that height, and then touched down.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021