How to Use winglet in a Sentence

winglet

noun
  • Stratasys The top row has aero winglets, which are placed on the front bumper.
    — Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Researchers added curved tips, known as winglets, to existing turbine blades.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
  • Aero winglets add stability when the throttle's open wide.
    — New Atlas, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The lights sweep toward the fenders like winglets, while the whale-like grille below could swallow an ocean of krill.
    — Henry Payne, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • But there, at the end of the wing, was a jagged ridge, perhaps a foot high, where the five-foot-tall winglet was supposed to be.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The direction of thrust can be changed rapidly by altering the angle of the winglets.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2019
  • That also explains the small winglets over the tops of the front wheels and even the spinning fairings that cover the wheels themselves.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Now, how functional those winglets are for the KB399 remains to be seen.
    — New Atlas, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The airline is also adding new graphics to the winglets, and removing a website graphic from the design.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The air ducts, winglets, and a pointed front fascia are all key design elements that give it that familiar superbike look.
    — New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Not everyone will have the same size concha, of course, but OnePlus also bundles large and small tips and winglets.
    — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 21 May 2018
  • The design defects focused on the aircraft’s angle-of-attack sensors, two small winglets on each side of the plane below the cockpit windows.
    — USA Today, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The same outside-hinge approach was used for the rear hatch, to prevent any loss of headroom in the back, and to give designers and excuse to use cool little winglet roof covers.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 17 July 2021
  • There are also numerous air-sculpting details, including gurneys atop the windshield frame and tiny winglets on the side mirrors and door handles.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 2 July 2024
  • The trio is developing alloys to manipulate rudders, winglets and other parts of aircrafts and spaceships.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • This also would have helped the animal move more efficiently, kind of like the upward-pointing winglets on the tips of commercial airplane wings, which help reduce drag.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2025
  • Since then, no accidents or crashes involving the Cessna fleet with the Tamarack winglet system have been reported.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Glenn is developing an alloy of nickel, titanium and hafnium to manipulate flaps, winglets, rudders and other parts in air and space.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • An American Airlines regional flight hit turbulence over Alabama Tuesday night and lost a piece of its right wing known as the winglet.
    — al, 4 May 2022
  • This is accomplished via the winglets on the front fairing, which create a downforce that stabilizes the entire chassis by keeping the front wheel firmly planted to the ground, particularly at high speeds.
    — New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The small upturned tips of each wing are called winglets, and although they weren’t added to the big airliners until the late 1980s, they were invented more than a century earlier.
    — Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
  • All well and good in the name of offering more features on what are essentially learner-category motorcycles, but winglets on a 125cc moto?
    — New Atlas, 27 May 2026
  • Its 42-foot Torpedo RS is built with a more dramatic hourglass profile, enhanced by stylish stern winglets that deliver sharper turns and a drier ride in swells.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The winglets and the corner sidepods that Ducati debuted in MotoGP in 2021 help with the downforce, even at extreme lean angles.
    — New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Many of the improvements involve changes to existing planes — like adding winglets to wings, which reduce drag and improve efficiency by a few percentage points, or replacing older engines with more efficient models.
    — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2016
  • Klinginsmith says a prototype for the A320 winglet program could be up and flying in seven months, though the company is still working on details surrounding the demonstrator.
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The default fitting of the OnePlus Bullets Wireless includes silicone winglets alongside medium-sized silicone ear tips.
    — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 21 May 2018
  • That jet, the first to debut, promises 8 percent lower operating costs than Airbus’s A320neo jets from upgrades that include new fuel-efficient engines and winglets.
    — Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
  • In Paris, Airbus announced Monday a study to add winglets to make the A380 more fuel-efficient and a denser seat configuration to improve its economics.
    — Dominic Gates, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
  • The estates of three people who died in a 2018 plane crash in Southern Indiana have reached a settlement with the aviation company behind a winglet system scrutinized in the incident.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 27 Jan. 2023

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