Sentence examples for causing drag from inspiring English sources

How long it could stay there depends on sunspot activity, which bloats the atmosphere, causing drag on the telescope.

But steering the boat this way is difficult and distracting, often causing drag on the boat that could shave precious seconds off a team's competitive time.

Burt asked Tonya to think of the way a badminton shuttlecock falls: how it always falls in the same position, and falls slowly, its feathers causing drag.

"Even before the race you are sewing up everything so nothing on your suit is flapping in the wind and causing drag.

Le Maho and his colleagues believe that these ill effects are the result of the bands causing drag when the penguins swim.

A limited pool of talent and funding also causes drag on the sector.

That's because the bands cause drag as penguins swim, and they are unable to gather food as efficiently for themselves or their chicks, said Claire Saraux, the study's lead author and a biologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg.

A spaceship could have the wings needed to land on the ground, but they could be hinged, and rotate, like oversized air flaps: this would cause drag, the way the feathers on a shuttlecock do, and would set the craft at a stable, belly-first angle on reëntry.

The Swimmer Buddy doesn't cause drag for swimmers because it's light and rides on top of the water, Zinger said.

A third hypothesis proposes that the solar nebula caused drag on the particles from which Mercury was accreting, which meant that lighter particles were lost from the accreting material and not gathered by Mercury.

The rush to rebuild is drawing on an already tight construction labor force, causing a drag on building in other parts of the country.