airborne

Example Sentences

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Jack Propeck, of Mission Viejo, is charged with one count of delivering or retrieving a person or object by parachute, helicopter or other airborne means, according to a complaint filed Dec. 12 in U.S.

From Los Angeles Times

I dash down one staircase, then another, taking the final five steps in a single airborne leap.

From Literature

Their results indicate that Thrinaxodon probably had an eardrum large enough to detect airborne sound efficiently, pushing the origin of this trait back by nearly 50 million years.

From Science Daily

The method also tracks how plastics move between different environmental pathways, including airborne particles, dustfall, rain, snow, and dust resuspension.

From Science Daily

Iron reaches the oceans mainly through airborne dust from deserts and dry regions, as well as through meltwater released by glaciers.

From Science Daily