How to Use pilot in a Sentence

pilot

1 of 3 noun
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  • The cost includes lunch and a private guide (the pilot).
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • In the videos, two IDF pilots discuss whether or not to strike.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The drill can drill small pilot holes and larger holes, too.
    — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Sadly, the pilot wasn’t picked up and the show returned to the wilderness for almost a decade.
    — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2023
  • One of the pilots told air traffic controllers that the man who posed the threat had been removed from the cockpit.
    — David Koenig, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • After a pilot flew over the fire, the agency reported the fire had reached 83 acres.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The Ukrainian pilots will then go on to other countries for the next stages of training.
    — Aamer Madhani, ajc, 5 June 2023
  • This is the third time Boeing has failed to disclose a flight deck feature to 737 MAX pilots.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • During these tests the aircraft will be crewed, meaning that it will be flown by a pilot who is on board the plane.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Gomez has been a series regular since the pilot episode.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The pilot in command fell asleep and woke just under an hour later.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The pilot declined to comment when reached by phone Friday.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The pilot kicked out a window and pulled Welsh through, but Hemingway, too large to fit through the window frame, forced the door open with his head.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The pilot was the only person on board the six-seater and died before he could be taken to a hospital.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Brazil blames two American pilots in a crash that killed 154.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • One of the greatest enduring mysteries is the fate of beloved pilot Amelia Earhart.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • In the next few slides, the singer strikes different poses while wearing the pilot’s glasses again.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The bulletin said pilots reduced flight speed and stopped climbing as the engineer and the third pilot went to check it out.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Open a sandwich shop (already in progress, score!), bike across Greece, get your pilot’s license.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, training fighter pilots has been the 115th's mission at Truax for decades.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • According to the news report, the jet’s pilot reported smoke in the cockpit, but made a smooth and safe landing around 9 pm.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The program is a pilot one that will be funded by the city’s Crime Control and Prevention District.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The private pilot and his son were one of many families who made it out to the show to watch stunts in the sky and on land, performed by professionals.
    — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Yet less than one-third of attacks are successful, pilots said.
    — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The city started the one-year pilot program last October for $1.3 million.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • And what were the challenges of having essentially two pilots out there?
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Emerson initially had engaged the pilots in small talk about the weather and the aircraft, the affidavit says.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Bailey, who is under an overall deal at the studio, created the series and wrote the pilot.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In February, the district board approved extending the pilot program through the school year to test its effectiveness.
    — Yana Kunichoff, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Minear originally planned for Lucy (Arielle Kebbel) to be their helicopter pilot.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
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pilot

2 of 3 verb
  • He is learning how to pilot a helicopter.
  • He skillfully piloted the ship into port during the storm.
  • The court is among the first in the nation to pilot the gadget.
    — The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Kristin Wolfe — call sign Beo Wolfe — will be piloting the F35 for the show.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In each of those first seasons, Freeze piloted his team to a bowl game.
    — Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The aircraft was a small, one-engine plane owned and piloted by Sachs.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In 1960, Captain Don Walsh piloted the bathyscaph Trieste to the deepest place in the ocean, a.k.a.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The chain is piloting the program in Columbus, Ohio this month.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 17 June 2023
  • To pilot these new tools, Nalaquq is training locals, most of them young people.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • In 2014, Ukraine had only a handful of drone piloting schools.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Post impact, Pagani piloted the craft back to the boat with trembling hands.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • It was piloted last year with seven fellows; a second group of at least 15 new cities will be matched in August.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Southwest would first plan to pilot the overnight flights from both Las Vegas and Hawaii in their introduction of red-eyes.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • It was piloted at about five dozen schools last school year and will be test run at about 800 schools this fall, twice as many as originally planned.
    — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • The most beguiling detail in this modest work is the idea that responding to U.F.O.s, and to the aliens who pilot them, is a matter of common courtesy.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Hebert piloted the drone to an altitude of about 330 feet and took six photos of himself and the stadium, the complaint says.
    — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • In Auburn’s first offensive possession, Thorne piloted the Tigers down to the Samford 1-yard line on the back of 12 plays, of which seven were pass plays.
    — Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The stakes of success or failure on a writing assignment feel, to many of my students, much closer to piloting a plane.
    — Amanda Parrish Morgan, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Often, this kind of change takes piloting, testing and learning.
    — Laura Thompson, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • From aboard their ship off the coast of Chile, scientists piloted a research vessel into the sapphire depths.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Mike Tehan pilots a fishing boat called Nibbles out of Shelter Island.
    — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • In the future, the state is planning to pilot crisis stabilization centers, O’Higgins said.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Once aboard, Minh induces Lincoln to pilot it on the river, and what starts as a jaunt opens up into a major parenthesis in Lincoln’s life.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Clutch action is light too, so this is a pleasantly involving car to pilot, even at lower speeds.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2023
  • It is piloted by a single human who must wear a full pressure suit, like an astronaut.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Mind you, Schwarzenegger did not pilot a jet over downtown Miami while the actress playing his daughter clung to the cockpit.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The show was originally ordered to pilot at NBC back in January.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Pagani and Kenny piloted them back to the catamaran to exchange the batteries.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • His practice has been piloting the software for a year and now uses it in all of the organization's offices.
    — Sanvi Bangalore, CBS News, 21 July 2023
  • Boston is piloting three zero-fare public bus routes, and New York City is expected to test free buses on five lines.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 July 2023
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pilot

3 of 3 adjective
  • The group conducted a pilot program.
  • The body is hinged at the front to allow the pilot access to the cockpit.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The bottom line: the pilot shortage won't be solved any time soon.
    — Peter Greenberg, CBS News, 21 July 2022
  • But this was more than simply the pilot episode of the January 6 show.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 9 June 2022
  • Working our way out of the pilot shortage will not be as easy.
    — Geoff Murray, CNN, 19 July 2022
  • But by far, the bigger problem has been the pilot shortage.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • The Michigan State Police had a pilot program to test oral swabs as of 2019.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Bibb rolled out a pilot version of the online tracker last week.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The plan was to start with a pilot program of sorts in Phuket this summer, and then five other provinces to follow in the fall.
    — Will McGough, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Before there was a script or a treatment for the pilot episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, there was the idea for the theme song.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • One is a pilot program to offer a low-water grass seed at cost.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • But one of the bills was watered down, replacing a pilot program with a study that could take three years.
    — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Consider starting with a pilot plot to gauge how your choice pans out.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
  • A dozen schools in the district began a pilot program to allow for face-to-face counseling.
    — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The park will charge $14 per vehicle for timed-entry parking at the trailhead as part of a pilot program from Sept. 7 through Oct. 3.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Fly & Dry was a pilot program for a year, reaching 50 seniors a month through a partnership with Meals on Wheels.
    — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Speed cushions were installed as part of a pilot program on Winneste Avenue.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The team decided to develop a pilot program to test the proposition that yes, VR can help.
    — Colleen Reilly, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Just a few weeks later, the series formerly known as Showtime got a pilot order from HBO.
    — Vulture, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The department began to roll out a pilot video call system in October.
    — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2021
  • In June, the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter announced a pilot four-day workweek starting in 2022.
    — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
  • In the meantime, Twitter is running a pilot program with a select group of businesses.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Lewis said the tribe would also initiate a pilot program to cover some of its canals with solar panels.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2021
  • That rule is largely going to be broken here with what can be considered a pilot episode of Car and Passenger.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2022
  • American has parked about 100 regional jets due to the pilot shortage.
    — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The campus tried to roll out a pilot program to provide free menstrual products, but the products ran out within a couple of weeks.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
  • The city is nearing a pilot program to divert particular mental health calls to BCRI.
    — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The plan also calls for a pilot program of adaptive bikes for people with disabilities.
    — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
  • The vote on Proposition 10 came just a week after the East Zion Initiative launched a pilot electric shuttle system.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Buy Beta is a pilot program that started a month ago in Iowa, and parts of Pennsylvania and Oklahoma.
    — Catherine Roberts, Star Tribune, 3 May 2021

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