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Example sentences for "nacelle"

Lexicographically close words:
nable; nabobs; nabor; nabors; nace; nach; nachdem; nachelly; nacher; nacheral
  1. It was the starboard nacelle wheel that was obviously stuck, and as the plane circled slowly about Dave could see the pilot struggling desperately to get his third wheel down.

  2. His starboard nacelle wheel was up in its recess to stay.

  3. A panting gasp of relief burst from Dawson's lips as he saw Freddy push up out of the nacelle pit and climb down onto the wing, and jump to the ground.

  4. This finally developed into the carefully streamlined "shorthorn" with the raised nacelle and a single tail-plane.

  5. Isaacson engine was connected by a shaft to a propeller mounted behind the nacelle on the top tail boom.

  6. The pilot's nacelle was pivoted under the main planes, wires were attached to the control members so that the movements of the nacelle in its efforts to keep a level keel brought them into operation.

  7. It was a day when five reporters had gathered, and Carl felt very much in the limelight, waiting in the nacelle of the machine for the time to start.

  8. How safe the nest of the nacelle where he sat seemed then!

  9. Overhead and projecting from beyond the point of the nacelle was the blunt nose of the gas-bag, the port side tinted a rosy red as the growing light glinted on it, the starboard side showing dark grey against the sombre sky.

  10. Examination resulted in the knowledge that although the aluminium sides of the nacelle had been liberally peppered, most of the nickel bullets had penetrated both sides without doing vital damage.

  11. Above the crackling of the flames came the sharp tang of the suspension wires holding the nacelle to the aluminium envelope as they parted under the terrific heat.

  12. They found the alley-way thick with smoke, for on the well-known principle that "the wind follows the ship" the draught was carrying the fumes within the nacelle in a forward direction.

  13. Whether a sufficient number of tension wires remained to adequately support the afterpart of the nacelle remained a matter of doubt.

  14. Finding that escape was impossible and unable to offer resistance, Fosterdyke opened out one of the doors of the nacelle and raised his hands above his head.

  15. From her foremost nacelle a circular basket, fitted with a vertical vane to prevent it from turning round and round like a gigantic meat-jack, was hanging.

  16. A long nacelle or framework, triangular in section and built up of light steel tubes, was suspended beneath the envelope by means of diagonally crossed suspensions.

  17. A 7 horse-power Peugeot engine was fitted at the after end of the nacelle which drove a 10-feet diameter propeller.

  18. Into the nacelle he dragged the dying man.

  19. As Nissr slowly turned, a trap opened in the bottom of her lower gallery, almost directly between the two forward vacuum-floats, and down sped a little landing nacelle or basket at the end of a fine steel cable.

  20. The nacelle sank gently on to a heap of motionless pilgrims, canted to the left, and came to rest.

  21. Now the Ka'aba was close; now the nacelle slowed, beside it, in the shadow of its grim blackness.

  22. Out of the nacelle tumbled the major, pale as he had formerly been red, his face all drawn with grief and pain.

  23. The Master raised his hand in signal to Grison, at the electric winch A turn of a lever, and the nacelle rose from the metals of the lower gallery.

  24. The rifles were opening a lively fire, already, as the men staggered over the prostrate Moslems, reached the nacelle and with a grunt and a heave tumbled the Hajar el Aswad into it.

  25. On to the edge of the nacelle he clambered.

  26. Open the trap, now, and swing the nacelle by the electric crane and winch.

  27. Rrisa viewed them with scorn, as he went down in the nacelle with a dozen of the crew.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nacelle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.