How to Use nacelle in a Sentence

nacelle

noun
  • The nacelle's crane then takes over and lifts the package to the top of the turbine.
    — New Atlas, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The nacelles that house the generator for each wind turbine are there, too.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Boeing decided two years ago to make some of its own nacelles after years of buying them.
    — Doug Cameron, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The plane apparently has a defect that could cause an engine nacelle to break up.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2024
  • On one of these retrofits, each of the two nacelles would house an electric motor of about a megawatt as well as a turbine engine.
    — Amy Jankovsky, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The motion of wind rotates the large blades of the turbine, which in turn rotates a rotor in the square box at the top of the turbine, called a nacelle.
    — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Next, one of the nacelles will be modified to include the hybrid-electric components.
    — Amy Jankovsky, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2023
  • One is to angle the nacelles forward rather than leaving them vertical, which would allow the aircraft to remain for about half an hour.
    — David Hambling, WIRED, 5 June 2009
  • Earlier this month, Dongfang shipped the world’s heaviest nacelle, along with its three giant blades, to the site.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
  • After take off, the X-plane tilts its rotor nacelles forward for horizontal flight and locks them off as the jet engines take over.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Attached to either side of the platform are retractable legs carrying two massive turbine nacelles.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
  • As this happens, the engine's power is redirected through a conventional jet nozzle at the rear of the nacelle.
    — David Szondy march 09, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2026
  • As a result, sections of the wings are much thicker than on a normal passenger jet, with a pair of engine nacelles mounted above the rear trailing edges.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 June 2019
  • Those characteristic Starfleet nacelles are kept well away from the ship to protect the crew from an unwanted warping.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The set also features adjustable and motorized turbine blades and a movable nacelle with aircraft warning lights.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2018
  • The Osprey is 57 feet long and 22 feet high with its engine nacelles rotated upward.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2019
  • This is the third major incident with a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine since May. Earlier in June, a China Eastern Airlines A330 en route to Shanghai had to return to Sydney after the engine nacelle was damaged.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Esquire, 26 June 2017
  • Because of the tilt rotor design, which places two large propellers and engine nacelles to the left and right of the fuselage, machine guns cannot be safely fired from the side of the aircraft.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2018
  • According to a Chamber news release, the company will produce and install aircraft engine nacelles at the site.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Kane credits the show’s cast and crew for explicating to her why Pelia would, say, request that the Enterprise vent plasma out of the warp nacelles.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • The company will spend about $1 million to start up an operation that builds and installs jet engine nacelles, the components that wrap around a jet engine.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Tower sections, blades and nacelles are expected to begin arriving in New London as early as this spring.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Safran Nacelles manufactures nacelles for short, medium and long-range commercial aircraft.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
  • After the airplane landed safely back in Sydney, emergency crews found a gaping hole in the front part of the engine nacelle's structural casing, known as the nose cowl.
    — Jon Ostrower, CNN, 11 June 2017
  • Jackson has to scale a narrow, metal ladder inside the turbine and pull herself through a hatch at the top to access the turbine’s nacelle, which sits atop the tower and contains the machine’s main parts.
    — Morgan Smith, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The engine includes a composite fan more than 11 feet in diameter, tucked into a 14-and-a-half-foot engine capsule, or nacelle.
    — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2019
  • The refueling port on the left nacelle is also exposed—either the jet was de-fueled after being declared safe or the shock of the landing knocked the door into the downward position.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2020
  • While most parts from old wind turbines can be recycled or reused, including the shell, nacelle, and metallic internal components, the long blades are typically made from fiberglass.
    — New Atlas, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The kits swap the engine in its streamlined housing (also known as nacelle) for a fuel-cell stack, power electronics, and a 2-MW electric motor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Hybrid power unlocks the design Omen uses a tailsitter configuration with sail-plane wings, canards, and twin-boom nacelles.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025

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