How to Use yaw in a Sentence

yaw

noun
  • Sensors measure the pitch and yaw of the plane.
  • The airplane's rudder is used to control yaw.
  • Bob Connolly bounces in the front seat, rolling with the pitch and yaw.
    — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Tweaking the rudder on your plane—by folding it slightly to the left or right—will affect the yaw.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
  • All commercial turbines are programed to always turn or ‘yaw' their rotors to face the wind.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019
  • By directing these air streams precisely, the aircraft can adjust pitch, roll, and yaw.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This creates a steering effect on the rear axle, increasing yaw to help a car rotate through a corner.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2020
  • That's a much more gradual process than actually just damping down the [yaw] motion.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Every man in the ship would have an intuitive sense of the weather after rising, feeling the pitch and yaw of the ship in the harsh seas.
    — James G. Stavridis, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • In low speed flight yaw was controlled by varying the turboprops' propeller pitch via rudder pedals.
    — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
  • One communication dish handle will adjust pitch and the other yaw.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The waist rotates ±150°, while the head supports ±115° yaw and ±36° pitch.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • This allows the mount to still control the altitude angle, while the drone’s movement controls the yaw (moving left or right).
    — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2016
  • This yaw assist — or torque vectoring — helps the Enclave steer with more stability and less front-tire scrub.
    — Malcolm Gunn, courant.com, 17 May 2018
  • Its smoother yaw behaviour and proven durability still keep it the conservative choice.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This will provide no stability, specifically in yaw, or sway.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2017
  • For future eradication campaigns, yaws and measles are both good potential targets.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The counter-rotating rotors remove the need for a tail rotor, while adjustable tail vanes provide smooth yaw control by catching the airflow.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The parents’ job is to find stimulating activities to engage their son over the gaping yaw that is summertime.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2017
  • The aluminium test frame allowed basic hover tests, but yaw inputs exposed a torsional problem.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The instructor, and soon Coleman, handled a large wooden stick to control the plane’s pitch and roll, and moved a rudder bar with his feet to control its yaw.
    — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
  • One had the hepatitis B virus, and the other carried the bacterium that causes yaws, a disease in the same family as syphilis.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Teams generally build vertical and horizontal stabilizers on the back of their subs with flaps to let the pilot control pitch and yaw.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2017
  • But there are competing theories about the exact origin of syphilis and other treponemal infections, such as bejel and yaws.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Active yaw control, featuring a twin-clutch rear differential, keeps the Blazer level through the corners.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2019
  • The motors are tilted by 15º to provide three times more yaw-control action, while only losing 3 percent of the collective thrust.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2016
  • These essential peripherals allow players to gain tactile control over their in-game throttle, pitch, yaw, and roll—and there's no shortage of games to use your joystick with.
    — Harry Rabinowitz and Matt Ng, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
  • In 2012, researchers realized that a single dose of antibiotics could treat yaws and break the transmission cycle.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Some of the failures were traced to the aircraft’s power control unit, which incorporated yaw-damping technology.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The allowable rates of wheelspin and yaw are determined according to driving mode or, when in manual mode, by the driver via the instrument cluster.
    — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 29 Mar. 2018

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