dirigible
Example Sentences
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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
“Call it a dirigible, that’s fine — this place was an airfield less than one century ago.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2021
What he saw was the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
