How to Use rotor in a Sentence

rotor

noun
  • What are the best brake rotors to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • Next to the rotor sits the driving coil.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
  • That success does not spell the end of the three-blade rotor.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The pilot kept the rotors on to hold the copter on the icy shelf.
    — John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Once at sea, the rotors’ impact was clear.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Most cars have a disk (called a rotor) attached to the wheel.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
  • For disc brakes that means pads and rotors, and for drum brakes that means shoes and drums.
    — Matt Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Those bolts clamp blades to the rotor and bear the stress of wind and motion.
    — The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The second is that the front two rotors sit lower than the rear two.
    — New Atlas, 8 May 2025
  • For disc brakes, remember to bed in the new pads to the rotor.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Put the pads and bracket back over the rotor and reinsert the bolts.
    — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The brakes are hydraulic disks at the front and vented rotors at the rear.
    — New Atlas, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The noise could be a dust shield behind one of the brake rotors that is rubbing.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Soon the rotors began and Marc felt his heart shake as the steel beast hummed to life.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
  • As two of them jumped out to secure the aircraft, they were hit and killed by its rotor blades.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
  • One of its rotor blades broke off during touchdown and was flung away to one side (far left).
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The damage suggests the rotor hit the surface on the way down.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
  • So the rotors push the air down and increase the air-momentum.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 4 July 2018
  • All four tail rotor blades were separated, and one of the blades was not found.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 24 July 2019
  • The rotor roared above the Sonoran desert, kicking up dust and wind.
    — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 June 2018
  • But the wave rotor is not the only unique thing about Gosse’s spaceship.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 July 2024
  • Its rotor, which provides lift, spins freely without the help of the engine.
    — Chris Boyette, CNN, 30 July 2023
  • Forward thrust makes the rotor blades spin, and the blades alone provide lift and control.
    — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
  • The team specially designed the mold for the rotor blades.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This protects the drone, its rotors, and the mental state of any would-be drone pilots.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2017
  • Jamie’s motor begins with a rotor—the spinning part.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In the video above, the laser burns through the plastic arm holding one of the four sets of rotors on a quadcopter.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The crash was blamed on the tail rotor hitting a tree, the station reported.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 3 May 2018
  • If the magnetic push happens at the wrong moment, the rotor can slow down or stop.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Strain on rotor shaft The torque meter measures the strain on the rotor shaft.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023

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