How to Use unpowered in a Sentence

unpowered

adjective
  • Some leftover ice cream has turned liquid in unpowered freezers.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The rockets then shut down and the unpowered missile descends to its target.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Ashby earlier this year broke a land-speed record in an unpowered vessel with a sailing rig on wheels.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Then, the friction of the unpowered engine slows the car without the driver having to use the brakes.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 16 June 2023
  • The barge is unarmed, unpowered, and will probably never leave port.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 July 2021
  • Since unpowered wires cannot arc, mapping these breaks can give a general idea of the fire’s progression.
    — Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2011
  • Residents came by to share the contents of their freezers before breakfast sausages and pork chops spoiled in their unpowered homes.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The first unpowered flight in Alaska took place 23 years earlier.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Motors in two of those modules gently pushed the bed from side to side, with the other two unpowered modules simply sliding along with them.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The Starship will fall to an unpowered, destructive splashdown near Hawaii.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But all over the building, there are sinks and bathtubs that don’t drain, unpowered smoke detectors and endlessly flickering lights.
    — Frank Shyong Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • In mid-November the world watched spellbound as Philae fell for seven hours in an unpowered descent to the tumbling comet.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2014
  • The initial autogiro required a horse or a working group of several people to wrap a rope around the rotor, generating a spin and unpowered lift.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The company broke ground on a demonstration reactor, which will be unpowered, earlier this year in Tennessee.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Only recently have scientists figured out that the leakiness is the secret to dandelions’ success at long-distance unpowered flight.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
  • Then the glide vehicles divert to a flatter trajectory—either exiting the atmosphere or staying just within it—and sail on unpowered.
    — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Trek The bike boasts similar 170 mm of high-pivot suspension as its unpowered Slash ancestor.
    — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 30 July 2024
  • The jet released the unpowered spaceplane, and its two pilots steered Unity to a runway landing at Spaceport America.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
  • The action here, and throughout these two episodes, is something of a mixed bag — and thus a bit disappointing, given that this is a show about two unpowered heroes who have to get by entirely on their physical skills.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Their approach involves unpowered devices known as nodes that receive an acoustic signal from a transmitter, modulate it in a way that encodes information in the wave, and then reflect it back.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The booster accelerates it to high altitudes and extreme speeds before separating, allowing the unpowered glide body to descend.
    — David Szondy june 26, New Atlas, 26 June 2026
  • The passengers will need to return to their seats after a few minutes as the craft reorients and begins to interact with the increasing density of the atmosphere and then glides to an unpowered landing.
    — John Antczak, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Though probably best known for its regular unpowered models, the 2017 launch of the Brompton Electric saw the company join the ebike space.
    — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2024
  • For complete privacy, the microphones in all the Denon Home speakers can remain disabled and unpowered unless users specifically choose to enable the feature.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Distinct from electric mopeds and motorcycles — which are already required to have a state license plate — electric-assist bicycles with pedals are allowed to ride in bike lanes citywide and legally treated the same as their unpowered brethren.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Over the following years, Virgin Galactic conducted a series of powered and unpowered test flights to evaluate the spacecraft’s performance.
    — Valerie Stimac, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Ballistic missiles, by comparison, fly a largely unpowered parabolic trajectory—like that of a fly ball coming off a baseball bat—after being propelled by an initial rocket boost.
    — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 2 June 2022
  • Patches Argue for Stretches Recent interest in stretchable batteries stems from growing use of unpowered wearable patches that monitor blood and even sweat.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2024
  • During periods of extreme heat, temperatures inside unpowered vehicles can reach deadly temperatures in minutes.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
  • While the reusable booster heads back to landing on a nearby pad, the crew capsule continues upward on an unpowered, ballistic trajectory, reaching a maximum altitude of just above 65 miles three-and-a-half minutes after takeoff.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2022

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