How to Use cockpit in a Sentence

cockpit

noun
  • 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
  • Stucky climbed through a side hatch into the left seat of the cockpit.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • At the end of the hourlong flight, Kendall climbed out of the cockpit grinning.
    — Tara Copp, Fortune, 4 May 2024
  • The body is hinged at the front to allow the pilot access to the cockpit.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Khol spoke as his son sat in the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang.
    — David Petkiewicz, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2021
  • There are a whole bunch of buttons on the wheel, hand controls in the cockpit.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Just make sure there isn’t a giant snake in the cockpit.
    — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The hijackers have just busted the door to the cockpit.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Meanwhile, in the cockpit, all eyes were trained on the horizon.
    — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Alarms from the cockpit can be heard blaring in the recording.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The canopy blows off, rockets ignite, and the seat rides on rails out of cockpit.
    — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
  • In the cockpit, Wright held a gun to a flight attendant's head.
    — USA Today, 29 July 2021
  • On a split screen, viewers could see what Banger saw from the cockpit.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 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
  • The impact heaved her from the cockpit and flipped Parker’s kayak too.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • In the cockpit The driver gets a bunch of clever features to control the Ioniq 9.
    — New Atlas, 21 Nov. 2024
  • It’s way more common to have females in the cockpit now.
    — The Editors, Marie Claire, 25 June 2021
  • Chuck Yeager sat in the cockpit as the ur-pilot, the epitome of the Right Stuff.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
  • When traveling at speeds over 28 mph, a six-inch hood flap opens and forces the air up and over the cockpit.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Once a driver is in the cockpit — a student might weigh around 100 pounds — teams place weights in the car to meet the threshold.
    — Bernard Mokam Gabriela Bhaskar, New York Times, 11 May 2024
  • From the beginning, Chevy hasn’t hidden that the C8’s cockpit was designed to look like that of a fighter jet, but the tuner has chosen to take things to another level.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Ars Video Investigators searched for the plane's cockpit voice recorder, which might provide clues as to what was happening in the cockpit during the crash.
    — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025

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