Example sentences for: propeller

How can you use “propeller” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And then I saw, right in front of my eyes, on the deck of the carrier, a chief petty officer sliced into three parts by a propeller blade.

  • Propeller-Head Jesus has a halo with a red cross in it that looks like a propeller.

  • Some technologies can be "predicted"--some forecasters define it as "envelope curve" projections--if you can define the narrow parameters and the physical constraints of particular items, such as Moore's Law on computer-chip speeds and size, or more broadly, the change from a propeller drive plane to a jet engine--but there, the upper limits are 16,000 miles an hour, for that is escape velocity and you are then not in cyberspace but real outer space.

  • According to the report, 700 to 800 people die every year in boat-related fatalities (which, significantly, do not include drownings and other water-related deaths by people who go out on boats, unless the boat itself is somehow responsible--as would be the case, for instance, if someone died from falling off a boat rather than dying during a deliberately planned swim or scuba dive; though if, during a deliberately planned swim or scuba dive, someone were struck by a boat propeller and killed, that would count as a boat-related fatality).

  • We should have looked for the propeller.


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