How to Use supersonic in a Sentence

supersonic

adjective
  • The goal is to reach supersonic speeds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But [the supersonic speed] also hurts her life in all kinds of ways.
    — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • Each aircraft in the series is built to go faster and keep up supersonic speeds for longer.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
  • Joe had ejected from his crippled aircraft at supersonic speed, and was lucky to be alive.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Now based in Texas, the pair both fly supersonic B-1 bombers.
    — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • So instead of flying it at supersonic speeds, keep it still and then move everything else past the cells.
    — Diana Tsai, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Leche de tigre is the citrusy jet fuel that makes your ceviche supersonic.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2022
  • Airlines' moves to go supersonic echo a previous attempt to do the same.
    — Tom Costello, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Scholl said Overture’s gull wings will be shaped for both supersonic and subsonic flight modes.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 June 2023
  • To say her rise through the ranks at the storied studio was supersonic would be an understatement.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Boom is one of a handful of start-ups undertaking supersonic flight.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Mach numbers above 1 mean an object is traveling at supersonic speeds—that is, faster than the speed of sound.
    — Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Entering a spin, or a tumble, at supersonic speeds would be hard to recover from.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Here’s more on why supersonic flight creates sonic booms, and how the X-59 could change that.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 15 June 2023
  • Under current rules, planes must stay below the speed of sound while traveling over land but can use supersonic speeds over oceans.
    — Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • American Airlines is betting on a supersonic jet whose launch may still be years away.
    — Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022
  • If left unchallenged, the drones could be used to bomb high-value targets or even strike them at supersonic speed in suicide attacks.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In the video, several passengers climb aboard the supersonic jet.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Each step brings us closer to Phase 2, and to the future of commercial supersonic flight.
    — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 1 June 2026
  • The same core can operate as a ramjet at supersonic speeds and as a scramjet at hypersonic speeds.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But this does line up with the supersonic pace with which Lopez and Affleck have seemingly rekindled their flame.
    — Christopher Ros, Glamour, 21 July 2021
  • This is the only photo ever taken of a Concorde at supersonic speeds.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The result has been a slow-motion birth, in fits and starts, of a super-state — kind of like a supersonic jet constructing itself in mid-flight.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The surfaces of objects that move in air faster than sound, such as supersonic airplanes or space rockets, are heated by hundreds of degrees.
    — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Capturing supersonic jets isn’t as simple as mounting a camera on a tripod.
    — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The company said the aircraft reached high supersonic speeds approaching Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
  • As a result, the aircraft has to be designed to minimize these effects as well as the thermal stresses caused by supersonic flight.
    — David Szondy june 04, New Atlas, 4 June 2026
  • If successful, the program could restore supersonic commercial travel for the first time in over two decades.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
  • With the power of supersonic flight — planes that can fly faster than the speed of sound — such a fantastic notion could soon become a reality.
    — Tatyana Woodall, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2022
  • If time flies, then 2025 moved at supersonic speed, and December is its landing strip.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 1 Dec. 2025

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