Unmanned is an English word with synonyms like pilotless or manned. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Unmanned in a sentence
Unmanned meaning
- Not operated by a person or a crew.
- Of a bird of prey: not accustomed to the presence of human beings.
- Of a setting, situation or event, devoid of males.
Using Unmanned
- The main meaning on this page is: Not operated by a person or a crew. | Of a bird of prey: not accustomed to the presence of human beings. | Of a setting, situation or event, devoid of males.
- Useful related words include: remote-controlled, pilotless, manned.
- In the example corpus, unmanned often appears in combinations such as: unmanned aerial, an unmanned, unmanned aircraft.
Context around Unmanned
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unmanned
- In this selection, "unmanned" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, naval, optionally, purely, aerial, aircraft and vessels stand out and add context to how "unmanned" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a missions unmanned tests of and a purely unmanned aircraft as. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unmanned" sits close to words such as antique, blending and copenhagen, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unmanned
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over Bryansk. (8 words)
He said they visually confirmed it was an unmanned balloon with no identification markings. (14 words)
He said: “The lesson is that UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and drones are now key capabilities for land forces. (19 words)
He proposed that the Navy create a new high-ranking officer who would have the authority and funding to build a so-called hybrid fleet in which the new generation of unmanned vehicles would operate in conjunction with traditional warships. (40 words)
Regarding to the unmanned aircraft manufactured by the army, Brigadier Sarie said that pilot operations of unmanned aircraft began during the second year of aggression and the air force managed to break the superiority of the enemy air force. (39 words)
Although originally planned to be optionally-unmanned, some Lockheed officials are leaning towards a purely unmanned aircraft, as it is expected that issues with airspace integration of UAVs will be addressed by the time it will be introduced. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The big shift will probably be to unmanned vessels, perhaps similar to the drone boats or USV’s (Unmanned Service Vessels) deployed by Ukraine in the Black Sea.
He also established the first naval unmanned and artificial intelligence task force, Task Force 59. During his tour, TF 59 went from experimentation to operations, including the first use of weapons aboard an unmanned platform.
Regarding to the unmanned aircraft manufactured by the army, Brigadier Sarie said that pilot operations of unmanned aircraft began during the second year of aggression and the air force managed to break the superiority of the enemy air force.
Although originally planned to be optionally-unmanned, some Lockheed officials are leaning towards a purely unmanned aircraft, as it is expected that issues with airspace integration of UAVs will be addressed by the time it will be introduced.
Planning main Apollo 4 and Apollo 6 had been "A" missions, unmanned tests of the Saturn V launch vehicle using an unmanned Block I production model of the Apollo Command and Service Module in Earth orbit.
The Soviet unmanned missions culminated in the Lunokhod program in the early 1970s, which included the first unmanned rovers and also successfully brought lunar soil samples to Earth for study.
Unmanned remotes Remote-controlled (RC) airships, a type of unmanned aerial system (UAS), are sometimes used for commercial purposes such as advertising and aerial video and photography as well as recreational purposes.
Unmanned Saturn V and LM tests On April 24, 1967, Mueller published an official Apollo mission numbering scheme, using sequential numbers for all flights, manned or unmanned.
After a brief halt and reset during the last few seconds of the countdown, the unmanned Starship + Super Heavy stack lifted off like nothing ever before.
An unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over Bryansk.
A police search operation has ended successfully after an unmanned, upturned kayak was found in waters off Surf Beach today (Monday, December 11).
As Aaron Zhang, founder of A2Z Drone Delivery, explained, “To truly push the boundaries of autonomous unmanned drone delivery our development team needs to be able to test our latest delivery drone systems under real-life conditions.
A team of scientists and environmentalists tests out the WasteShark, an unmanned watercraft that vacuums up soda cans and potato-chip bags.
Beijing admitted that a second “unmanned airship” from China has entered other countries’ airspace, this time in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Collection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry over the Valley, Gracie and Old Cabin areas for geological mapping and desktop studies.
Feb. 10, an F-22 fighter jet shot down an unmanned high-altitude cylindrical object the size of a small car, off the coast near Deadhorse, Alaska.
He proposed that the Navy create a new high-ranking officer who would have the authority and funding to build a so-called hybrid fleet in which the new generation of unmanned vehicles would operate in conjunction with traditional warships.
He said: “The lesson is that UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and drones are now key capabilities for land forces.
He said they visually confirmed it was an unmanned balloon with no identification markings.
In a similar development, the governor of Russia's Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov reported the fall of unmanned aerial vehicles and clarified that there were no casualties as a result of the incident.
Common combinations with unmanned
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- unmanned aerial 48×
- an unmanned 40×
- unmanned aircraft 28×
- the unmanned 19×
- of unmanned 15×
- and unmanned 12×
- unmanned underwater 8×
- unmanned spacecraft 8×
- unmanned surface 6×
- for unmanned 6×