How to Use fuselage in a Sentence

fuselage

noun
  • The back one's tilt down, the front one's tilt up to stop the sheer forces in the fuselage.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2024
  • While the plane spiraled to the ground, its fuselage tore apart in midair, videos of the crash showed.
    Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The fuselage and wings of the Bora will be built in Georgia.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Lightning cracked the sky and the blue light of St. Elmo’s fire danced around the fuselage.
    Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Upon liftoff, a key sensor on the left side of the fuselage failed.
    Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • That’s because the old plane’s fuselage will be used as a stage and dance floor.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 July 2021
  • Next, the middle section of the fuselage was lowered and attached to the wings.
    Niraj Chokshi Lindsey Wasson, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The batteries will be 50% of the takeoff weight and make up the fuselage of the plane near where the wings attach.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The plane’s fuselage was 225 feet long and the tail stood as tall as a six-story building.
    Gene Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Bits of a fuselage and part of a tail with some lettering on it.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
  • But it was found next to part of the main fuselage, with what appeared to be all the cable rolled up on a spool.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
  • On the tarmac at the Nashua Airport sat a dinky white plane with wings mounted over the fuselage.
    Kurt G. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • In a small clearing along the Bear Lake segment is the fuselage of a red and white Cherokee plane.
    Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • About six minutes later, the chunk of fuselage blew out.
    David Koenig, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • People that were still in the fuselage were trapped by seats and debris and metal and stuff.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Someone sprints to the drone, whose white fuselage stands out against the iron-rich red soil, and covers it with a dark net.
    WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The plane, now propped up on jacks, creaks in the wind and strips of insulation flutter from holes in the fuselage.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The curves on the fuselage and large fans give the H1 a futuristic but equally retro look.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The pilot righted the plane just as the string flew past, one foot behind the trailing edge of the port wing and about two feet from the fuselage.
    WSJ, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The aircraft’s fuselage was split into parts that were scattered down the gorge.
    Sheikh Saaliq, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Unable to open any of the doors, Charles Marchant climbed onto the fuselage and pulled Huggan out through a ragged hole.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The jet, with room for nine passengers and three crew, had four engines mounted in two pods at the rear of the fuselage.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2022
  • At some point, windows will be added to the fuselage (there currently aren't any).
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The fittings involved are two of eight points where the vertical fin is attached to the fuselage.
    Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Whatever would be left on the surface would likely be….pieces of wings or the fuselage.
    Major Garrett, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The machines can churn out an entire rocket fuselage in just a few days.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022
  • With full view of the runway, the space includes a fuselage art piece atop a fireplace and five televisions.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The 1930s was also the heyday of the flying boat—a bulky vessel whose fuselage acted as the hull, floating it when the plane was in the water.
    Barbara Peterson, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • There are several small holes in the top of the fuselage related to hanging the model on wires.
    Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2022
  • The wing and fuselage would have to be separated along with its fuel tank.
    Eric Tegler, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022

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