airdrop

Example Sentences

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“We have to perform the airdrop as a surprise, so people don’t gather below,” Phille said earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

This was the largest coalition airdrop of the war: 14 aircraft from nine nations delivering 10 tonnes of aid.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2024

Early on Tuesday, the British government announced that it had carried out its first airdrop of food into Gaza.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024

The amount of aid delivered by a French plane in an airdrop last week was much less than a single truckload.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2024

The closest thing I’d had to human contact since the airdrop, the distant lights triggered a flood of emotion that caught me off guard.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer