sweptback

IPA: swˈɛptbæk

Examples of "sweptback" in Sentences

To meet this request required a sweptback wing.
Twin, sweptback, and tapered fins with angular tips.
Fixed vertical fin in sweptback upper and lower sections.
In less than a month, Mr. Withington proved that sweptback wings worked.
My decision is to attack immediately in a pentagonal column, sweptback, cone formation
Looking at some buteoine hawk and aquiline eagle skulls online, the first skull lacks the winglike sweptback bones preorbitals maybe?
The broad-shouldered man, with dark sweptback hair, was wearing a slick suit, its color a blue just the regal side of navy and therefore suggestive of a uniform.
Not far away, drifting in the same orbit, was a sweptback Titov-V spaceplane, and close to that an almost spherical Aries-1B, the workhorse of space, with the four stubby legs of its lunar-landing shock absorbers jutting from one side.