How to Use maglev in a Sentence

maglev

noun
  • There are two main systems of maglev in use.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The new Chinese train won’t be the world’s first maglev train.
    — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 5 June 2019
  • Frictionless maglev trains have of course been around for some time now.
    — New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Japan is one of the first countries to develop and adopt maglev trains.
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The cost to ride the maglev would be higher than using Amtrak.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • By that time, any thoughts of maglev or even mass transit had evaporated.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Some maglev trains, including very fast ones, are in service today.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Discussion of a maglev system for the Washington region goes back at least two decades.
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
  • That’s a little faster than the fastest operating speed for a train in the world today, the Shanghai maglev.
    — Emily Badger, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Japan, meanwhile, has been pursuing its own version of maglev since the 1970s.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Baltimore’s maglev terminal would be built on the Westport site.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Baltimore’s maglev terminal would be built on the Westport site.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
  • This is the promise of magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That’s a little faster than the fastest normal operating speed for a train in the world today, the Shanghai maglev.
    — Emily Badger, The Seattle Times, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The maglev isn’t the only high-speed travel concept Maryland is embracing.
    — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Train schemes had risen and, inevitably, fallen — among them a proposal for a maglev, a train levitated and propelled by magnets.
    — Susanne Craig, Mike McIntire and Russ Buettner, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2020
  • All this movement poses a challenge for Bivacor’s maglev rotor.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Features like the shallow maglev keyboard and the Kaby Lake-G chip suggest that thinness was a goal here.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 May 2018
  • That proposal calls for using maglev technology with trains reaching speeds of 375 miles per hour.
    — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The maglev could begin operating as early as 2030, the report says.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The cost of constructing a vacuum tube, a maglev system, a linear motor and a compressor is estimated to be billions of dollars.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • On Sunday, Virgin Hyperloop sent two passengers through its pneumatic maglev train for the first time.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Both the maglev proposal and the Cove Point operation have boosters, but also detractors.
    — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 10 July 2018
  • Specifically, its taking aim at traditional maglev systems, which often require a powered track.
    — Brent Rose, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2016
  • In June, China ran maglev tests that produced speeds of over 600 mph, which is faster than the speed at which commercial passenger aircraft fly.
    — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • China’s broader maglev push The work on maglev spans several technical approaches.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Basically, the Hyperloop is a combination of airplane cabin and life support systems and a maglev train.
    — Alice Bonasio, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The vehicle was also brought safely to a stop within a short distance, marking a new global benchmark for superconducting electric maglev systems.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Researchers in China have researched a solution to one of the largest issues facing magnetic levitation (maglev) trains.
    — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • That’s right—the train, which takes just over 7 minutes to complete the journey using magnetic levitation (maglev) technology, doesn’t go to the city center.
    — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2018

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