How to Use cockpit in a Sentence

cockpit

noun
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  • Harrison climbed into the cockpit and saw that the plane was diving, and fast.
    — CBS News, 17 May 2022
  • One clip of a video showed the view from the cockpit of an aircraft and a split second flash of a spherical object flying to the right of the aircraft.
    — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • The first black box, the cockpit voice recorder, was found on March 23, while the flight data recorder was found March 27.
    — Gio Benitez, ABC News, 17 May 2022
  • Jacob, who was filming himself in the cockpit, cursed repeatedly.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Imagine learning to virtually drive vehicles or fly an airplane right from the cockpit.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • The regimen included training on how to escape from a cockpit under water.
    — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • If the flying scenes here blow your mind, it’s because a great many of them are the real deal, putting audiences right there in the cockpit alongside a cast who learned to pilot for their parts.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 May 2022
  • Like a pilot in a cockpit, understanding the many factors that affect your journey is imperative.
    — Sal Rehmetullah, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • What’s left is an ultra-sleek minimalist cockpit worthy of its flagship automobile.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 18 May 2022
  • Some crashes led to new safety requirements, such as having more than one pilot in the cockpit or making doors more resistant to intrusion from the cabin.
    — Fortune, 18 May 2022
  • There is also a possibility that someone else on the plane could have broken into the cockpit and deliberately caused the crash, these people said.
    — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • The first, apparently captured from a smartphone, shows a small spherical object that whisks past the cockpit of a U.S. Navy strike fighter in the blink of an eye.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2022
  • The quick tire strategy, along with the quick hands in the cockpit, made Herta a player for the remainder of the race, as rain stopped and started and more than a half-dozen cautions cluttered up the flow of the action.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2022
  • More staff converged from all directions to unload crates of provisions for the next two weeks, while Ella and Natalie were allowed to wander outside and climb into the cockpit.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Demetrius Harris still remembers boarding a commercial flight and being greeted by two African American pilots in the cockpit.
    — Sherri McGee McCovey, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The nose and the cockpit were placed on top of a gimbal.
    — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
  • The roomy cockpit seats two kids (or one kid and a ton of toys).
    — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 9 May 2023
  • In 2016, Stevens turned the cockpit over to Philip Lowe, who at the time seemed a steady hand.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The cockpit is snug for two, but it's lined with leather and faux suede.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 14 Mar. 2023
  • At the end of the hourlong flight, Kendall climbed out of the cockpit grinning.
    — Tara Copp, Fortune, 4 May 2024
  • There are a whole bunch of buttons on the wheel, hand controls in the cockpit.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, in the cockpit, all eyes were trained on the horizon.
    — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The two pilots wrestled with Emerson and were able to get him out of the cockpit.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Hortense sat in the back, so her daughter could sit in the cockpit next to the pilot.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
  • When that occurs, the pilots can leave the cockpits and oversight can be from the ground.
    — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The cockpit is edged in Kevlar, which won’t splinter like the carbon-fiber hull if there’s a crash.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
  • That includes the immersive feel of the cockpit and ship flight and ship AI.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Chuck Yeager sat in the cockpit as the ur-pilot, the epitome of the Right Stuff.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
  • After a plane’s captain is sucked out of a hole in the cockpit created by a midair collision, the passengers have to tend to each other with some emergency telemedical guidance.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Adding to that carry capability is a vast cavern of an interior opened up by the compact electric powertrain, barely-there hood, lack of standard seats beyond the driver's, and light digital cockpit.
    — New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2024

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