How to Use unmanned in a Sentence

unmanned

adjective
  • The 5th Fleet launched its unmanned Task Force 59 last year.
    Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Divers and unmanned naval vessels pulled up the rest from the bottom of the ocean.
    Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The sole low counter was at the far end and unmanned with its computer shut down.
    Curbed, 19 July 2023
  • Japan will provide the unmanned launch spacecraft and the rover, which will explore the moon’s south pole.
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Artemis 1, an unmanned rocket, is scheduled for a mission to the Moon and back that will last up to 42 days.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Days later, the unmanned flight test was delayed again due to a fuel leak.
    Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The spokeswoman added that the current manning for the TACP field is currently at 80%, and that cuts to the available jobs would start with the unmanned 20%.
    Michael Lee, Fox News, 22 June 2023
  • As the video above shows, the Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jet approached the unmanned drone from the rear and accelerated in front of it.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
  • On July 17, the Kerch bridge was hit again, this time by an unmanned seaborne vehicle.
    Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • After a day and a half of work, the unmanned submersible returns to the Offshore Surveyor.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Both manned and unmanned vessels have reached these depths, called Challenger Deep.
    Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The fact that the spacecraft may be unmanned also poses challenges.
    Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • But the unmanned prompts are leading more customers to question what, exactly, the tips are for.
    Rachel Wolfe, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
  • Even so, the unmanned test flight has been deemed a success by the company’s engineers.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, unmanned aircraft featured more prominently than fighter jets, and that has been the case in this war as well.
    Liam Collins, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, his unmanned plane crashes into a hill full of trees.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 May 2023
  • The original plan was for an unmanned submersible to enter through a window or onto the ship's roof.
    USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • One strike was against a mobile missile launcher and the other against an unmanned aerial system, the sources said.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The unmanned aircraft flew over South Korea for five hours, prompting an armed response.
    Arkansas Online, 6 Jan. 2023
  • On Friday, the Marines were scheduled to test fly unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, from the vessel.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Moon mission An unmanned spacecraft is set to land on the moon today in the first US lunar landing attempt since the Apollo era.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Bloomberg reports that China's next unmanned mission, Chang'e-7, will target the South Pole.
    Nathaniel Mott, PCMAG, 11 Sep. 2022
  • One of the ways to get information from the boundary layer includes using an unmanned drone that can fly in and around the highest wind gusts.
    Analisa Novak, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • According to news accounts, there are unmanned point-of-sale kiosks in fast-food joints around the country that prompt consumers with tip requests.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Fedorov said in a May interview that naval drones were amongst the top three most important unmanned systems in Ukraine.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
  • On a bay just off the Persian Gulf, two very unusual Navy vessels moved about: one built for speed, the other endurance, but both unmanned.
    Eric Lipton, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Searchers on the ground are using canines while unmanned aerial systems have also been utilized in the effort to find the missing nurse.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In 1979, that lighthouse was downgraded to an unmanned light station, with the light itself replaced by new light on a steel tower.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • In August, India pulled off its first lunar landing of an unmanned craft, becoming the fourth country to make it to the moon’s surface.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The unmanned train rolled downhill and derailed, killing 47 people and causing millions of dollars in damage.
    Josh Funk, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023

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