dirigible

Example Sentences

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In a nod to the need for a military component, he suggested images of vessels, not people—a dirigible, a battleship and a submarine named Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2023

Walter Wellmann lifted off in the dirigible “America,” only to ditch it off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, when a storm hit shortly afterward.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2022

Other inventions, which never quite succeeded, included a sailboat with an adjustable mast, a dirigible, a fiberglass ukulele and a solid-foam football, with grooves in the surface.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2021

Lowman has also accessed the canopy using construction cranes and an inflatable raft attached to a dirigible.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2021

What he saw was the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand