How to Use cowling in a Sentence

cowling

noun
  • The fan cowl in front, the thrust reverser in back and the cowling in between.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The cowling for the left-hand turbine is missing, just like Luke’s, and there’s a bit of damage on the nose.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 6 July 2018
  • Also of concern was the fact that the cowling — the circular piece on the front of the engine — fell from the sky.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The kid stretched his pencil-thin neck over the cowling and stomped on the rudder pedals, left and right, left and right, weaving around bergs.
    — Lionel Atwill, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Pictures taken from inside the Air France plane showed the front cowling and fan disc of the No.
    — Alastair Jamieson, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Investigators also want to know why a cowling, which covers part of the fuselage, broke away.
    — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The cowling does come off for the major service, but that one's only every five years or 1000 hours.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The left engine cowling of the jet was damaged, and the plane remained in Yakutat Sunday.
    — CBS News, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Investigators will also look at why the cowling, which covers the front of the engine, broke off along with other parts.
    — David Koenig, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The left engine had failed, shooting metal fragments like bullets and peeling back the engine cowling like a banana.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2019
  • One blade flying free could bounce around inside the cowling, breaking loose other fan blades, creating a hail of spinning sword-like debris.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The cowling came apart and plummeted toward Blue Marsh Lake, some 5 miles below.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The rocket dropped its boosters about two minutes into the flight followed by the cowling surrounding Shenzhou-12.
    — Sam McNeil, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
  • Photos posted by passengers online showed the outer of the two engines under the right wing with extensive damage, and the entire frontal ring of the cowling missing.
    — Mark Deen, Bloomberg.com, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Both engines have lower profiles, allowing designers to lower the hood and cowling, and lower levels of noise, vibration and harshness.
    — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Other experts said Boeing could be in the spotlight too as investigators look into why the cowling separated from the engine.
    — David Koenig, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The titanium alloy blade careened through the turbine engine and protective cowling with devastating force.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Portions of the cowling, or inlet portion, and nearby rotating sections separated from the rest of the engine so violently that the sequence of events was akin to an explosion.
    — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Photos show a gaping hole where a window was on the 737, and outside a mangled mess of engine cowling, with the white on blue Southwest lettering crumpled like a soda can.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The engine family involved in the April accident has had two such cowling ruptures in some 350 million flight hours, according to engine experts.
    — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • Boeing is also looking at a manufacturing issue with some engine covers that involves possible damage to a coating that insulates the engine cowlings from lighting strikes.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • But video and images posted to social media, apparently by passengers on the flight, showed what appeared to be the right engine of a Boeing 777 without its front cowling.
    — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Pieces of the engine including its cowling – the smooth metal exterior that covers its inner workings – were found about 60 miles (97 km) from Philadelphia airport, Sumwalt said.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • This Poseidon of prop-spinners—under a carbon-fiber cowling pinstriped with LED lightbars—is currently the world’s most powerful production outboard motor.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • Officials said that part of the engine's exterior, the cowling, was found in Bernville, Pennsylvania, roughly 70 miles from Philadelphia's airport.
    — Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Good morning, Safety experts tracking the probe of what caused the deadly midair engine failure of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 say vulnerabilities in a fan blade and the cowling, or engine cover, have emerged as risk factors.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The new jet also features 13 stars denoting the 13 original colonies on its fuselage, the main body of an aircraft, and a circle of stars on each engine cowling, or covering, reflecting the original Betsy Ross flag and an America250 decal on the nose and winglet.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026

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