Sentence examples for tractor beam from inspiring English sources

"tractor beam" is a common phrase in written English, typically used to describe an imagined or fictional device used to draw objects into a spacecraft.
For example, "The crew activated the ship's tractor beam to bring the asteroid into the cargo bay."

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tractor beam

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A device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance.

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The immediate applications of the Dundee tractor beam are medical.

Professors develop a real-life "Star Trek" tractor beam.

A tractor beam came down from his spaceship and sucked up one of the creatures.

Laser physicists have built a reversible tractor beam and are using it to retrieve tiny particles.

Beach House makes insular, woozy, viscous dream-pop that's like being caught in a tractor beam.

ONE of the most useful pieces of equipment in science fiction is the tractor beam.

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When I mention this to Jack O'Connell he fixes me, right on cue, with an extraordinary, tractor-beam stare.

In contrast, Crocker praised Washington's acting, writing, "He's immense: centering every scene with tractor-beam charisma, that dangerous, easy charm hovering between a luxury smile or blazing violence".

Ultimately, "Psychogeography" is most profound when Self and Steadman turn away from the Empty Quarters and, instead, reflect on the tractor-beam pull familiar places exert.

At the very last moment, the Material Defender is rescued via a tractor beam by an organization known as the Red Acropolis Research Team.

Clinton, her smile shrinking, stood perfectly still, as if held in a tractor beam or tractor Bern.

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