helicopter
Example Sentences
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Then, before sunrise Sunday morning, an army helicopter dropped more than a dozen Mexican special forces near Oseguera’s hideout in the town of Tapalpa, according to sources familiar with the operations.
From Los Angeles Times
"The assertion that ransom was delivered by helicopter to insurgents, with cross-border confirmation of receipt, is fiction," Idris said in the statement.
From BBC
A fleet of six helicopters was readied for deployment but in neighboring states so that gang operatives wouldn’t get tipped off.
Brown’s 2021 visit to Africa’s central spot, in the Central African Republic, required hiring a helicopter and bringing along a few machine-gun-toting government soldiers so he could shoulder through dense jungle to the appointed coordinates.
“What we saw were helicopters flying around the area,” she said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
