A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly.
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Examples for "pocket "
Examples for "pocket "
1 Penalties include higher premiums and lower company contributions for out - of - pocket health costs.
2 I feel my phone buzz in my back pocket : a new text.
3 Henry unfolded a paper from his breast pocket and scanned the text.
4 In the time-table I carry in my pocket I unfold the earth.
5 In civilized countries everyone but the pariahs carried a pocket receiving set.
1 The thing paused for a moment in the air hole , looking back.
2 You'll need to poke an air hole or two in the lid.
3 It was solid and firm, not even an air hole to be seen.
4 Roly went down through an air hole in the ice.
5 Poor Roly slipped through an air hole in the ice.
1 She found herself in a small air pocket , perhaps ten paces wide.
2 The sledge bucked and bounced across the floor of the air pocket .
3 The thapter hit an air pocket , rolled, and she almost fell out.
4 There is a possibility, however remote it could be, of an air pocket .
5 Gretchen had survived because she'd been pressed into an air pocket .
6 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wall panels trap the sun's heat in an air pocket .
7 The Pelican hit an air pocket , dropped like a rock, and caught itself.
8 Better check in case someone's trapped in an air pocket .
9 On first use, the heel did have an air pocket .
10 He survived in an air pocket under tonnes of rubble.
11 The air pocket is not over eight or ten feet.
12 By instinct I'd cupped a palm around my mouth to create an air pocket .
13 He said that he had found an air pocket where he survived by drinking water.
14 There's a large air pocket right beneath the lander.
15 The base plate is fairly thin in some places and underneath there's an air pocket .
16 Either they struck an air pocket , or the rudder was given too sudden a twist.
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