How to Use unmanned in a Sentence

unmanned

adjective
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  • The 5th Fleet launched its unmanned Task Force 59 last year.
    — Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Divers and unmanned naval vessels pulled up the rest from the bottom of the ocean.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The Emirates plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024.
    — NBC News, 5 Oct. 2021
  • In 2024, the country hopes to put an unmanned spacecraft on the moon.
    — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The sole low counter was at the far end and unmanned with its computer shut down.
    — Curbed, 19 July 2023
  • These are now the deepest wreck dives, manned or unmanned, on record.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Japan will provide the unmanned launch spacecraft and the rover, which will explore the moon’s south pole.
    — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Houthi rebels there have for months choked the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with unmanned weaponry, both in the sky and on the water.
    — Colin Demarest, Axios, 19 July 2024
  • That's what the Navy has in mind for its fleet of large unmanned surface vessels.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
  • And for good measure, Novikov claimed the Air Force will expand its fleet of unmanned craft to eight by 2025.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2021
  • Artemis 1, an unmanned rocket, is scheduled for a mission to the Moon and back that will last up to 42 days.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • One of the sites hit Sunday was used in the launch and recovery of armed unmanned aircraft.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • Days later, the unmanned flight test was delayed again due to a fuel leak.
    — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The spokeswoman added that the current manning for the TACP field is currently at 80%, and that cuts to the available jobs would start with the unmanned 20%.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 22 June 2023
  • As the video above shows, the Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jet approached the unmanned drone from the rear and accelerated in front of it.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
  • On July 17, the Kerch bridge was hit again, this time by an unmanned seaborne vehicle.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • After a day and a half of work, the unmanned submersible returns to the Offshore Surveyor.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Both manned and unmanned vessels have reached these depths, called Challenger Deep.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The fact that the spacecraft may be unmanned also poses challenges.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The team intends to visit each site, and send an unmanned vehicle to explore the seafloor.
    — al, 23 Aug. 2021
  • But the unmanned prompts are leading more customers to question what, exactly, the tips are for.
    — Rachel Wolfe, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
  • The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan.
    — Jamie Crawford and Oren Liebermann, CNN, 27 Aug. 2021
  • But the Navy wants a lot more ships, including a fast-growing fleet of unmanned vessels.
    — al, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Even so, the unmanned test flight has been deemed a success by the company’s engineers.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, unmanned aircraft featured more prominently than fighter jets, and that has been the case in this war as well.
    — Liam Collins, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, his unmanned plane crashes into a hill full of trees.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 May 2023
  • The original plan was for an unmanned submersible to enter through a window or onto the ship's roof.
    — USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Its first unmanned test flight in December 2019 failed to achieve its core objective of docking in the ISS.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • Almost all of them are unmanned, and cutting a cord can be as simple as severing it from the station with a hacksaw.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • On Sunday, the park service said more than 20 ground searchers, two helicopters, unmanned air systems and a search dog team were focusing on the area around Eagle Peak.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024

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