How to Use unmanned in a Sentence

unmanned

adjective
  • Dark fridges stood behind an unmanned bar.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
  • These are now the deepest wreck dives, manned or unmanned, on record.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The sole low counter was at the far end and unmanned with its computer shut down.
    — Curbed, 19 July 2023
  • Divers and unmanned naval vessels pulled up the rest from the bottom of the ocean.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • This was an unmanned drone from the 1970s, the size of a bug.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2020
  • And then there were the unmanned maritime systems.
    — Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In moments, the unmanned aircraft knocks him down.
    — ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The spacecraft would be unmanned and roughly about the size of a business jet.
    — Rebecca Santana, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2018
  • Days later, the unmanned flight test was delayed again due to a fuel leak.
    — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
  • All aircraft was grounded due to an unmanned aircraft this evening over the fire.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
  • The ship has unmanned submarines that can descend deep into the ocean.
    — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
  • That's what the Navy has in mind for its fleet of large unmanned surface vessels.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Somehow, we got used to the idea of unmanned flying machines that can rain down death.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Japan will provide the unmanned launch spacecraft and the rover, which will explore the moon’s south pole.
    — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Twelve men walked on the moon between those years, and all spacecraft on the moon's surface since have been unmanned.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Images of what appears to be a new unmanned strike drone have emerged from Russia.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2019
  • The unmanned ground vehicles were then brought in to set up on the beach and perhaps begin the fight.
    — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • First, though, the Block 5 has to complete seven unmanned flights.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 May 2018
  • Colorado deputies have spotted more than a dozen unmanned drones flying in the northeast part of the state.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
  • This shift has led to more focus on unmanned and distributed systems.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • Last year, China became the first country to send an unmanned rover to the far side of the moon.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The unmanned demonstrator was able to hover with 30% of its fans turned off.
    — Joe Salas may 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2025
  • The fact that the spacecraft may be unmanned also poses challenges.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Both manned and unmanned vessels have reached these depths, called Challenger Deep.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022
  • In 2024, the country hopes to put an unmanned spacecraft on the moon.
    — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • These are unmanned surface vessels.
    — ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The island’s focus is now on using unmanned systems that are easy to deploy at low cost.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The team intends to visit each site, and send an unmanned vehicle to explore the seafloor.
    — al, 23 Aug. 2021
  • This was also the first time the unmanned aircraft had been deployed to the allied country.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • One of the sites hit Sunday was used in the launch and recovery of armed unmanned aircraft.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021

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