'pilot' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'pilot' with 20 example sentences.
- pilot noun
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: someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
: a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
: a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
: something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
: small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
: an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- pilot verb
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: operate an airplane
: act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
The pilot landed the plane safely.
He became an Air Force pilot.
I want to be a pilot when I grow up.
Pilots communicate with the airport by radio.
It was determined that the plane crashed due to pilot error.
The pilot made an emergency landing in the desert.
Military pilots are trained to take more risks than civilian pilots.
They made the pilot fly the Navy helicopter.
The pilot described the scene in detail.
The pilot was never charged for his reckless flying.
A pilot guides the ship toward the port.
This is every pilot's worst nightmare.
Four hundred fifty black pilots were in the group.
The badly burnt pilot was still in the cockpit.
The pilot will land the plane.
The pilots tested their guns.
The pilots of Air France went on strike.
Alan Shepard was the first American to pilot a spacecraft.
Tell the helicopter pilot to throw down a rope!
It was next to impossible to get a trained pilot.