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Example sentences for "blips"

Lexicographically close words:
blinked; blinkers; blinking; blinks; blip; blis; blisful; bliss; blisse; blissed
  1. This prevented them from showing up as blips on the giant detector radarscope mounted on the main building.

  2. We'll keep an eye out for enemy blips while we do our prospecting.

  3. Within seconds, the three blips met on the screen and fused into a single spot of light.

  4. Two small blips were visible--one the Jupiter probe missile, the other the recovery missile--moving on courses that would soon intersect.

  5. The blips on the screen verified the alarm.

  6. On the scanner, Strong could see the flashes of blips as the squadrons roared out of concealment and closed in on the approaching rocket scout.

  7. Solar Guard captain, as he saw the white blips on the scanner screen.

  8. He turned to the radar scanner and saw the white evenly spaced blips that represented Squadron B enveloping the three enemy ships.

  9. Then the screens sparkled with seemingly hundreds of blips which seemed to swirl and spin and whirl again in total and disordered confusion.

  10. The cloud of radar-blips grew bright and came near.

  11. At greater distances a radar would identify them only as dots which must be enemy ships because the radar-blips they made lacked the nimbus of friendly craft.

  12. The faint, shifting blips in the radar screens was an old story, reminding him that certain things were no better than before, and that some were worse.

  13. Nelsen and Ramos tensed--blips on the radar screen!

  14. The twenty odd crates, some of them taking up an orbital relationship with the vessel, were blips on the screen.

  15. He checked the suspicion against the blips on the scope and obtained verification .

  16. The planes returning from a mission were little blips on the glass.

  17. A couple of the blips were over the ocean way south of England and they were trying to contact them by radio to reorient them.

  18. The present pattern was not unlike that of a stylized Christmas tree, with broad blips representing branches at the base, and increasingly narrower ones representing the branches at the top.

  19. Other metals with good reflection qualities would show blips slightly higher or lower on the scale.

  20. They were three white blips on the green surface of the glass scope, in perfect line, traveling at incredible speeds.

  21. The two blips drew closer to the heart of the scope.

  22. They are approaching the spaceport, sir," called the Titan control-tower operator, and Strong jumped to the radarscope to stare at the two blips on the screen.

  23. Without breaking his transmission, the ground controller asked if the radar operator still had the lock-on because on the scope the distance between two blips had almost doubled in one sweep of the antenna.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beam; blips; bounce; display; echo; picture; reading; reflection; return; signal; spot; trace