How to Use pilot in a Sentence

pilot

1 of 3 noun

• The cost includes lunch and a private guide (the pilot).
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• In the videos, two IDF pilots discuss whether or not to strike.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The drill can drill small pilot holes and larger holes, too.
  — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2023
• Sadly, the pilot wasn’t picked up and the show returned to the wilderness for almost a decade.
  — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2023
• One of the pilots told air traffic controllers that the man who posed the threat had been removed from the cockpit.
  — David Koenig, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
• After a pilot flew over the fire, the agency reported the fire had reached 83 acres.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• The Ukrainian pilots will then go on to other countries for the next stages of training.
  — Aamer Madhani, ajc, 5 June 2023
• This is the third time Boeing has failed to disclose a flight deck feature to 737 MAX pilots.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2024
• During these tests the aircraft will be crewed, meaning that it will be flown by a pilot who is on board the plane.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2023
• Gomez has been a series regular since the pilot episode.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
• The pilot in command fell asleep and woke just under an hour later.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• The pilot declined to comment when reached by phone Friday.
  — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• The pilot kicked out a window and pulled Welsh through, but Hemingway, too large to fit through the window frame, forced the door open with his head.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
• The pilot was the only person on board the six-seater and died before he could be taken to a hospital.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2023
• Brazil blames two American pilots in a crash that killed 154.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• One of the greatest enduring mysteries is the fate of beloved pilot Amelia Earhart.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• In the next few slides, the singer strikes different poses while wearing the pilot’s glasses again.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• The bulletin said pilots reduced flight speed and stopped climbing as the engineer and the third pilot went to check it out.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• Open a sandwich shop (already in progress, score!), bike across Greece, get your pilot’s license.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 15 Feb. 2024
• In fact, training fighter pilots has been the 115th's mission at Truax for decades.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• According to the news report, the jet’s pilot reported smoke in the cockpit, but made a smooth and safe landing around 9 pm.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
• The program is a pilot one that will be funded by the city’s Crime Control and Prevention District.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2024
• The private pilot and his son were one of many families who made it out to the show to watch stunts in the sky and on land, performed by professionals.
  — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Yet less than one-third of attacks are successful, pilots said.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• The city started the one-year pilot program last October for $1.3 million.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
• And what were the challenges of having essentially two pilots out there?
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
• Emerson initially had engaged the pilots in small talk about the weather and the aircraft, the affidavit says.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• Bailey, who is under an overall deal at the studio, created the series and wrote the pilot.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• Cockpit voice recordings begin the moment pilots start a plane.
  — Mark Walker, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Next, Hall revisits one of Barbie’s past stints as an airplane pilot, with a navy uniform and pink tie.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023

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pilot

2 of 3 verb

• He is learning how to pilot a helicopter.
• He skillfully piloted the ship into port during the storm.
• The court is among the first in the nation to pilot the gadget.
  — The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2023
• Kristin Wolfe — call sign Beo Wolfe — will be piloting the F35 for the show.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• In each of those first seasons, Freeze piloted his team to a bowl game.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2023
• The aircraft was a small, one-engine plane owned and piloted by Sachs.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 5 Jan. 2024
• In 1960, Captain Don Walsh piloted the bathyscaph Trieste to the deepest place in the ocean, a.k.a.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
• The chain is piloting the program in Columbus, Ohio this month.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 17 June 2023
• To pilot these new tools, Nalaquq is training locals, most of them young people.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• In 2014, Ukraine had only a handful of drone piloting schools.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
• Post impact, Pagani piloted the craft back to the boat with trembling hands.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• It was piloted last year with seven fellows; a second group of at least 15 new cities will be matched in August.
  — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• Southwest would first plan to pilot the overnight flights from both Las Vegas and Hawaii in their introduction of red-eyes.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
• It was piloted at about five dozen schools last school year and will be test run at about 800 schools this fall, twice as many as originally planned.
  — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The most beguiling detail in this modest work is the idea that responding to U.F.O.s, and to the aliens who pilot them, is a matter of common courtesy.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Hebert piloted the drone to an altitude of about 330 feet and took six photos of himself and the stadium, the complaint says.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• In Auburn’s first offensive possession, Thorne piloted the Tigers down to the Samford 1-yard line on the back of 12 plays, of which seven were pass plays.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• The stakes of success or failure on a writing assignment feel, to many of my students, much closer to piloting a plane.
  — Amanda Parrish Morgan, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• Often, this kind of change takes piloting, testing and learning.
  — Laura Thompson, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• From aboard their ship off the coast of Chile, scientists piloted a research vessel into the sapphire depths.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
• Mike Tehan pilots a fishing boat called Nibbles out of Shelter Island.
  — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
• In the future, the state is planning to pilot crisis stabilization centers, O’Higgins said.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Once aboard, Minh induces Lincoln to pilot it on the river, and what starts as a jaunt opens up into a major parenthesis in Lincoln’s life.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• Clutch action is light too, so this is a pleasantly involving car to pilot, even at lower speeds.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2023
• It is piloted by a single human who must wear a full pressure suit, like an astronaut.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Mind you, Schwarzenegger did not pilot a jet over downtown Miami while the actress playing his daughter clung to the cockpit.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• The show was originally ordered to pilot at NBC back in January.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
• Pagani and Kenny piloted them back to the catamaran to exchange the batteries.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• His practice has been piloting the software for a year and now uses it in all of the organization's offices.
  — Sanvi Bangalore, CBS News, 21 July 2023
• Boston is piloting three zero-fare public bus routes, and New York City is expected to test free buses on five lines.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 July 2023

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pilot

3 of 3 adjective

• The group conducted a pilot program.
• The body is hinged at the front to allow the pilot access to the cockpit.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2021
• The bottom line: the pilot shortage won't be solved any time soon.
  — Peter Greenberg, CBS News, 21 July 2022
• But this was more than simply the pilot episode of the January 6 show.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 9 June 2022
• Working our way out of the pilot shortage will not be as easy.
  — Geoff Murray, CNN, 19 July 2022
• But by far, the bigger problem has been the pilot shortage.
  — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• The Michigan State Police had a pilot program to test oral swabs as of 2019.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2021
• Bibb rolled out a pilot version of the online tracker last week.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2022
• The plan was to start with a pilot program of sorts in Phuket this summer, and then five other provinces to follow in the fall.
  — Will McGough, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• Before there was a script or a treatment for the pilot episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, there was the idea for the theme song.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2022
• One is a pilot program to offer a low-water grass seed at cost.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
• But one of the bills was watered down, replacing a pilot program with a study that could take three years.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• Consider starting with a pilot plot to gauge how your choice pans out.
  — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
• A dozen schools in the district began a pilot program to allow for face-to-face counseling.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021
• The park will charge $14 per vehicle for timed-entry parking at the trailhead as part of a pilot program from Sept. 7 through Oct. 3.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2021
• Fly & Dry was a pilot program for a year, reaching 50 seniors a month through a partnership with Meals on Wheels.
  — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2021
• Speed cushions were installed as part of a pilot program on Winneste Avenue.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2022
• The team decided to develop a pilot program to test the proposition that yes, VR can help.
  — Colleen Reilly, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• Just a few weeks later, the series formerly known as Showtime got a pilot order from HBO.
  — Vulture, 30 Apr. 2022
• The department began to roll out a pilot video call system in October.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2021
• In June, the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter announced a pilot four-day workweek starting in 2022.
  — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• In the meantime, Twitter is running a pilot program with a select group of businesses.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 20 Dec. 2022
• Lewis said the tribe would also initiate a pilot program to cover some of its canals with solar panels.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2021
• That rule is largely going to be broken here with what can be considered a pilot episode of Car and Passenger.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2022
• American has parked about 100 regional jets due to the pilot shortage.
  — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022
• The campus tried to roll out a pilot program to provide free menstrual products, but the products ran out within a couple of weeks.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
• The city is nearing a pilot program to divert particular mental health calls to BCRI.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• The plan also calls for a pilot program of adaptive bikes for people with disabilities.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• The vote on Proposition 10 came just a week after the East Zion Initiative launched a pilot electric shuttle system.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2021
• Buy Beta is a pilot program that started a month ago in Iowa, and parts of Pennsylvania and Oklahoma.
  — Catherine Roberts, Star Tribune, 3 May 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024