On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Liftoff. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as rise or rising and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Liftoff meaning
- The point in the launch of a rocket or an aircraft where it leaves contact with the ground.
- The point at which a person or animal leaves the ground, as for example when jumping.
- The point of launching into success or action.
Using Liftoff
- The main meaning on this page is: The point in the launch of a rocket or an aircraft where it leaves contact with the ground. | The point at which a person or animal leaves the ground, as for example when jumping. | The point of launching into success or action.
- Useful related words include: rise, rising, ascent, ascension.
- In the example corpus, liftoff often appears in combinations such as: after liftoff, before liftoff, liftoff and.
Context around Liftoff
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Liftoff
- In this selection, "liftoff" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, planned, successful, landing and joining stand out and add context to how "liftoff" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include minutes after liftoff and hour after liftoff. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "liftoff" sits close to words such as adamson, adapts and adeyemi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with liftoff
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It's the same problem that cropped up shortly after Thursday's liftoff. (13 words)
The 130-foot first-stage booster targets the landing drone eight minutes after liftoff. (14 words)
The method was used to separate the Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket after liftoff. (15 words)
Terran 1 is set to reach low Earth orbit eight minutes after blastoff on a voyage intended to gather data and demonstrate that it can withstand the rigors of liftoff and space flight. (33 words)
The malfunction comes after Tokyo in March saw its second attempt to launch its next-generation H3 rocket fail after liftoff, and after the failed launch of the solid-fuel Epsilon in October. (33 words)
SpaceX launched its megarocket for the first time on April 20 for a test flight, which ended with Starship being forced to self-destruct about four minutes after liftoff. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
It's the same problem that cropped up shortly after Thursday's liftoff.
Liftoff was delayed a day for additional data reviews of valves in the capsule's life-support system.
SpaceX launched its megarocket for the first time on April 20 for a test flight, which ended with Starship being forced to self-destruct about four minutes after liftoff.
SpaceX’s ground team waited to confirm the spacecraft deployment milestone when the rocket passed in range of a tracking station in Australia about an hour after liftoff.
Terran 1 is set to reach low Earth orbit eight minutes after blastoff on a voyage intended to gather data and demonstrate that it can withstand the rigors of liftoff and space flight.
The 130-foot first-stage booster targets the landing drone eight minutes after liftoff.
The Falcon 9 first stage returned to Earth about nine minutes after liftoff, landing aboard the SpaceX Of Course I Still Love You drone stationed in the Pacific Ocean.
The malfunction comes after Tokyo in March saw its second attempt to launch its next-generation H3 rocket fail after liftoff, and after the failed launch of the solid-fuel Epsilon in October.
The method was used to separate the Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket after liftoff.
The Super Heavy booster will likely make a hard splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about eight minutes after liftoff.
They were all expected to be deployed during a 30-minute period scheduled to begin about an hour after liftoff.
A little more then eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster is set to touchdown on a SpaceX droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Bahamas.
A marine layer of low clouds often rolls in from the Pacific, causing rockets to disappear seconds after liftoff.
Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams, right, were aboard the Starliner flight to the International Space Station that was scrubbed moments before liftoff on Saturday.
Just over an hour after liftoff, the first set of satellites were released from the upper stage and placed into an orbit 373 miles (600 kilometers) above Earth.
Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technology is up first with a planned liftoff of a lander Monday aboard a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan.
SpaceX will begin a live stream of the event on its X (formerly Twitter) account about 30 minutes before liftoff.
The satellites entered low-Earth orbit less than an hour from liftoff, joining Starlink's existing fleet of satellites providing wireless Internet service around the globe.
The successful liftoff will come as a big relief to everyone involved, not least Wilmore and Williams, who had already experienced two countdown halts due to technical issues.
The transatlantic flight, VS127, was called off just moments before liftoff on 15 January even though the airline said there was no risk to passengers.
Common combinations with liftoff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- after liftoff 23×
- before liftoff 6×
- liftoff and 5×
- liftoff the 5×
- liftoff of 5×
- for liftoff 5×
- to liftoff 4×
- liftoff from 4×
- at liftoff 4×
- from liftoff 3×