How to Use liftoff in a Sentence

liftoff

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  • Thousand of spectators gathered to watch the liftoff of the space shuttle.
  • The stars of Fly Me to the Moon are preparing for liftoff.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
  • But as much as the band fires up its engines, the record rarely achieves liftoff.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
  • With all that, why does the film never quite achieve liftoff?
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The song — which is teased at various points in the show — is given quite the liftoff at the end.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • As with any rocket launch, there's a lot at stake with this liftoff.
    — NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • But for extra liftoff, a speedy blow-dry will add swoosh.
    — Elle Turner, Glamour, 15 Aug. 2022
  • How steep the liftoff remains to be seen — although this week could be telling.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 2 Dec. 2022
  • But investors wanted too much, a liftoff on top of a liftoff.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Last week, the company posted a list of all the tests that have been done on the thrusters since liftoff.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Visit the town during a launch and see liftoff in person.
    — Caroline McKenzie, Country Living, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The Cygnus was released to fly on its own 14-and-a-half minutes after liftoff.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • After liftoff, the rocket will tear past the speed of sound, and near the top of its flight path, will detach from the capsule.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
  • And now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dashed chances for a liftoff in 2022.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
  • The Starship will loop around the planet and splash down north of Hawaii about 90 minutes after liftoff.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Each four-legged lander is about the size of a small car and weighed about 3,900 pounds at liftoff—most of that weight was propellant.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Elon Musk coming to him before liftoff last year to ease any of his concerns.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • The plan called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn’t happen.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The Blue Origin rocket veered off course over West Texas about a minute after liftoff.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Nothing has achieved liftoff on a real groove yet and the crowd is looking puzzled.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • By the time liftoff occurred about an hour later, the astronaut felt dry.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2022
  • This will be the biggest liftoff in a long, long time and the 322-foot SLS has been billed as the most powerful rocket ever.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The South’s military tracked the flight from its liftoff at about 3:50 a.m. from the North’s Tongchang-ri area, and also declared it a failure.
    — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The satellite, named Barry, is set for liftoff later this year aboard a SpaceX rocket.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The craft landed back on Earth about 10 minutes after liftoff, buoyed by a trio of parachutes.
    — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
  • The shock of the rocket’s liftoff damaged the launchpad, scattering large chunks of debris across the area and into the shoreline.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Sparkly moon boots were on order for Chanel's show, which achieved liftoff via a giant rocket in the middle of the floor.
    — Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2022
  • It’s expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean about an hour and a half after liftoff.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The booster anomaly could be seen in long-range tracking camera views when a shower of sparks and what looked like debris fell away from the right-side SRB 37 seconds after liftoff.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Shortly after liftoff, the Dragon's pressure began to slowly lower while oxygen levels inside the cabin increased, helping purge nitrogen from the crew members' bloodstreams and lower the risk of decompression sickness, SpaceX said.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024

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