airdrop

Example Sentences

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After stints as a waitress and hospital orderly, she joined the British Foreign Office, where she wrote propaganda leaflets that were airdropped on Poland during the Cold War.

From Washington Post

A U.S. military pilot known as the “Candy Bomber” for his candy airdrops during the Berlin Airlift after World War II ended.

From Seattle Times

Initially, the copycat protests consisted of individual students furtively leaving posters with those slogans on their campuses or airdropping fliers to strangers in public places — what activists called a “poster movement.”

From Washington Post

Syrian state television said that “U.S. occupier forces” carried out an airdrop with the support of Syrian Kurdish forces and that one civilian was killed and others were kidnapped.

From New York Times

The museum doesn’t shy away from some of the CIA’s failures, like a “dragonfly drone” that couldn’t handle a soft breeze, or a one-shot pistol meant to be airdropped by the thousands for foreign allies.

From Washington Post