How to Use jet engine in a Sentence

jet engine

noun
  • Even with smoother jet engines, those cards wouldn’t have stood for long.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • For a human, this would be like standing in the jet engine of a plane.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This suit has one main jet engine on the pilot's back with two smaller jets on each arm.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 18 June 2019
  • The two jet engines on the arms both produce forces in the x-direction.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 18 June 2019
  • Want to drone out the rumbling of airplane jet engines or the chatter on trains?
    — Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2024
  • As well as the cost, a jet engine brings another downside in terms of range.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Your sorrows will likely be drowned out by the roaring jet engines.
    — Shafaq Patel, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The roar of such fires has been compared to a jet engine, or oncoming freight train.
    — Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The crowd noise may approach jet engine levels, but that doesn’t seem to faze anyone.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2018
  • Nearby were the remains of two turbine jet engines along with a broken wing.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
  • But then there aren’t many who also happen to be a top gun at a company that makes jet engines.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Volcanic ash can cause a jet engine to shut down due to the spray’s angular and sharp texture.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 July 2023
  • Noise canceling works best on constant sound, like the constant drone of a jet engine.
    — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • As the wind howled like a revving jet engine, local people retreated to their homes to play board games.
    — Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Given how fired up the crowd will be at kickoff, an early score could produce noise as loud as a jet engine.
    — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • With jet engines attached, the robot weighs around 154 pounds.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • As more machines were switched on, the noise sounded like a ceiling fan, then a leaf blower, then a jet engine.
    — By Andrew R Chow/granbury, Texas, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • The devices also need to be able to withstand weather and the extreme winds from jet engines.
    — Kyle Arnold, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • Why use the jet engines to run electric fans when the engines can just create thrust directly?
    — David Szondy june 14, New Atlas, 14 June 2026
  • The jet engine business had revenue of $22 billion last year.
    — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • How can some sleepers doze through anything from the rattle of a jackhammer to the blast of a jet engine?
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2010
  • Passengers on board described a loud explosion as the jet engine caught on fire.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
  • WindRunner’s four jet engines will aid with short takeoffs.
    — Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Phillips recreates the roar of the crowd like a burst of white noise or, as Dinning describes it, a jet engine.
    — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 29 June 2023
  • That puts it in the same range as a firecracker, or a jet engine taking off some 330 feet away.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • When the roof is down, the area behind the seats is designed to resemble the humps over the jet engines of fighter planes.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The man died immediately, but his body badly damaged one of the jet engines.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
  • With jet engines, wings, and speeds over 500 mph, land-speed cars are tempting fate from their very inception.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2019
  • JetTrain was not the first attempt to bring jet engine technology to the rails.
    — Ben Jones, CNN, 8 June 2021
  • The heat escaping into the street through an open door was quickly backfilled with more from the jet engine rush of the burners.
    — Kate Selig, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022

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