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Recent Examples of turbojet
Unlike most subsequent commercial aircraft, the plane had its engines, four de Havilland Ghost turbojets, molded elegantly into the wing itself rather than in pods attached below it.
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Cnn.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
5 Aug. 2025
The sides fell from the packing crate, and the Roadrunner, a squat device that looked a little like a penguin, was propelled upward by two turbojets.
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Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
Next will come Barracuda cruise missiles, Roadrunner autonomous twin turbojet vehicles and more.
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Andrew King,
Axios,
31 Jan. 2025
For a humanoid robot whose weight is larger than 15 kg, turbojets might be considered.
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IEEE Spectrum,
19 Mar. 2018
See All Example Sentences for turbojet
Cnn.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
5 Aug. 2025
The sides fell from the packing crate, and the Roadrunner, a squat device that looked a little like a penguin, was propelled upward by two turbojets.
—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
Next will come Barracuda cruise missiles, Roadrunner autonomous twin turbojet vehicles and more.
—
Andrew King,
Axios,
31 Jan. 2025
For a humanoid robot whose weight is larger than 15 kg, turbojets might be considered.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
19 Mar. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turbojet
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The twin turboprop was flying from Butler to New Century, according to FlightAware.
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Nicknamed the Flying Suburban, the single-engine turboprop is popular for both corporate and cargo missions, thanks to its generous, configurable interior and short-field landing capabilities (including grass runways).
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The victim was riding on the back of the watercraft operated by a 26-year-old man, who had just made a U-turn when the second jet ski, driven by a 27-year-old man and carrying a 28-year-old woman, slammed into them, cops said.
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That might include tax, estate, trust and risk planning; family governance, business advisory and philanthropy services; and more lifestyle-type offerings such as private jet leasing and concierge services.
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Mikel Arteta is taking his supersonic.
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The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.
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From the Dallas Stadium, an unauthorized aircraft cannot come within three nautical miles or fly 3,000 feet ground-to-air.
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Additionally, 42 aircraft were lost or damaged, and 20 military installations were hit, leading to $29 billion in repair costs and an $80 billion supplement request.
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As expected, the ship—wider than and nearly as long a Boeing 777 jetliner—tipped over and exploded in a fireball, putting an exclamation point on V3’s trip halfway around the world from the Texas Gulf Coast.
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No pattern enacted on these buttons will safely land a four-hundred-ton jetliner, flaring and bouncing and settling heavily onto its twenty-two wheels while the spoilers on the wings snap up and the jets scream in reverse and the passengers sigh in relief.
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The work addresses a longstanding challenge in lightweight airframe design by increasing structural strength and stability without adding unnecessary weight.
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At least that seems to be the message from our winners this year in aviation, where the focus is just as much on technology gains and cabin refinement as on enlarging the airframe.
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Paz said that the state of emergency is intended to guarantee fuel supplies, which have become increasingly scarce as roadblocks have left tanker trucks stranded.
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There has been very limited demand to book tankers to load oil from ports in the Persian Gulf, a step that would need to happen for shipments from the export installations to happen, shipbrokers and tanker owners said Friday.
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The aircraft was described by the FAA as a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, a trijet wide-body airliner manufactured by McDonnell Douglas and later Boeing.
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The Air Force is in the process of acquiring a new tanker, the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus, which will be more efficient and have more advanced avionics than the KC-10, but the trijet Extender will still have the Pegasus beat on fuel capacity by about 70 tons.
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“Turbojet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turbojet. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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