How to Use ornithopter in a Sentence

ornithopter

noun

• The team who designed and built the ornithopter had a special goal in mind: to show that even air travel could be green.
  — Discover Magazine, 2010-09-30
• Mangini layered a cat purr over the ornithopter, with tent straps and beetle wings flapping in the wind.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2022-03-13
• During one Dune scene in which Ferguson is trapped in a birdlike flying machine called an ornithopter, her terror was pushed to its white- knuckle limit.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2021-09-03
• For instance, Leonardo da Vinci famously built a model plane out of parchment while dreaming up flying machines and used paper models to test his design for an ornithopter.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2023-01-04
• The Times published a helpful aviation glossary of terms: lateral stability, ornithopter, gliding speed, wing warping.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2023-01-10
• Some of da Vinci's most influential designs and inventions include an ornithopter, perpetual motion models, gear systems, a massively gigantic crossbow, and a mobile bridge, among others.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 2019-09-19
• After selling rubber-band powered dragonfly and swallow ornithopters on their web site, they were featured in a 2002 issue of Popular Science, generating enormous publicity for their projects.
  — John Baichtal, WIRED, 2007-10-03