How to Use turbofan in a Sentence

turbofan

noun
  • The wings would merge with the main body of the aircraft, which has a range similar to that of the turbofan.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Is that reverse thrust coming from the hot exhaust of the engine, or just from the turbofans?
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The main stage will feature two turbofan engines and an aerospike rocket engine.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
  • For power, the drone uses a turbofan engine.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025
  • All that performance needs better cooling, and that’s where the turbofan comes into play.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 4 Mar. 2021
  • This plane is powered by four conventional jet turbofans, albeit small ones.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • Modern airliners generally have turbofans, which draw in more air and travel much further on a tank of gas.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Technically known as turbofans, these machines have massive spinning fans in the front that create thrust by sending air out the back.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
  • In combat, traditional engines require raw thrust, and turbofans can lose power at high speed.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Beneath the wings are two turbofan engines that provide most of the thrust and generate electrical power.
    — David Szondy june 14, New Atlas, 14 June 2026
  • Like turbofan engines, scramjets scoop up oxygen from the surrounding atmosphere to use as fuel.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2022
  • What seems likely to have happened is that one of the Jaguar’s two Adour turbofan engines accidentally ate one of the birds.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 July 2019
  • Bladed discs, located in the hot section of a turbofan engine, pull energy from the hot gases of the combustor to produce thrust.
    — Julie Johnsson and Richard Clough, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • One key difference between the two is that a turbofan engine scoops up oxygen at subsonic speeds, while a scramjet scoops it up at supersonic speeds.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The design and placement of the engine focus on reducing noise by using quiet turbofan engines and shielding them from other parts.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The plane will have three normal gas turbofans as backup as the companies test the green engine for stress, safety, and reliability.
    — Christopher Schaberg, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Reports have revealed that the Güçhan turbofan delivers 42,000 pounds of thrust.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • The third design uses a turboprop engine, has half the range of the turbofan concept, and can carry up to 100 passengers.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Bullet-shaped with stubby wings and a Williams turbofan engine, the Tomahawk flies low at subsonic speeds to avoid enemy radar.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2017
  • The aircraft was identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The guts of a turbofan engine are complex, but major components include the low-pressure turbine, the high-pressure turbine, the core, and the compressor.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The engine saves a neat 25 percent emissions over Rolls-Royce’s original Trent turbofan.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Harriers are powered by a single turbofan engine, thrust from which is vectored out through four nozzles that can rotate from horizontal to vertical.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
  • The main difference is that Superpower dumps the turbofan used for thrust and replaces it with additional compressor stages.
    — New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Jammed behind his headrest was an auxiliary battery unit whose hum seemed impossibly loud, even over the F-35's turbofan engine.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • With a single turbofan engine and a takeoff weight of around 6,000 kg, the Kizilelma supports operations from land bases and ships.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The UltraOne™ has a two-speed electric turbofan, which provides you with optimal airflow and a refreshing feeling.
    — Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2020
  • An airliner-style nose/cockpit protrudes from the front while two turbofan engine pods are slung atop the rear fuselage, resulting in a look reminiscent of the Quinn jet from the Avengers movies.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The 20% reduction in fuel consumption new planes have achieved in the past may be hard to repeat, given that the low-hanging fruit in airframe and turbofan technology has already fallen.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The result was a giant variable-sweep-wing aircraft powered by four Kuznetsov NK-32 afterburning turbofan engines.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026

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