How to Use flying machine in a Sentence

flying machine

noun
  • Somehow, we got used to the idea of unmanned flying machines that can rain down death.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Take a look at some of the flying machines and other gadgets and equipment that were at the event.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This bright safety-orange flying machine is built to live on the water.
    — Joe Salas august 21, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Even great and ingenious things, like the first flying machine on Mars.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
  • In the towel was a very small bird that had managed to ground a 55-ton flying machine.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • His initial idea was to build a self-driving flying machine that could take off from and land in a parking space.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The flying machine itself is of the bi-plane order, with planes four and a half to five feet wide and twenty-six feet long.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The very flying machine that now seemed destined to disintegrate in midair with us and the little girl.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Here are a few highlights of my discussion with Franky about his latest flying machines.
    — Nick Goddard, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2016
  • At this point, Ginsburg would head to the chest press, leg extension, lat pull-down, cable row, and chest fly machines.
    — Andrea Park, SELF, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
    — Jennifer Bogo, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2019
  • Many recalled a flying machine equipped with a powerful searchlight.
    — Greg Eghigian, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The goal is to make their flying machine look like an eagle while incorporating the colors red, white and blue.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • There was a man who filed a patent in New Orleans for a flying machine that got thrown under the rug…that was hella cool.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2025
  • And now, coming onto the radar screen, are flying machines that do not exactly look like your father’s Buick with wings.
    — Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The planes look like insects, and the film suggests that’s one way that a flying machine, in another planetary sphere, might have evolved.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Of course, not everyone needs a 10,000-watt flying machine.
    — Omar Kardoudi march 11, New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Folklore further states that later the infield became an airstrip, and the stables were used to house the early flying machines.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2024
  • Using the rope on a cable fly machine, choose a starting weight that will challenge you (about 30 pounds, but adjust as needed).
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • There is a whole class of flying machine known as Ornithopters with flapping wings, most of which have been notably unsuccessful.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Over the coming weeks, Perseverance will deploy the four-pound flying machine.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Now researchers have taken it a step further, building a flying machine that is controlled by the operator's thoughts.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2013
  • On the weekends, the crew has been constructing their flying machine inside a warehouse on the company's campus.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • How this affects war in the air is a good question, but its implications for pilots and their flying machines is undeniable.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2019
  • Workhorse’s SureFly personal electric flying machine just took off for the first time.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 8 May 2018
  • Many of Terrafugia’s competitors, though, are abandoning the idea of flying machines that can also drive.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Even a coyote won’t tangle with an armor plated turkey that resembles some kind of flying machine in a Star Wars movie.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 July 2019
  • Consider the child who turns their wagon into a flying machine or the young entrepreneur who uses their wagon to collect rouge golf balls on the course and sell them to golfers.
    — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Visitors can walk through wildflowers as military aircraft fly over a lonely barn-like hangar—a replica of one that housed the first practical flying machine.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
  • During one Dune scene in which Ferguson is trapped in a birdlike flying machine called an ornithopter, her terror was pushed to its white- knuckle limit.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2021

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