zeppelin

Example Sentences

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The U.S. government began stockpiling the gas in the 1920s, when zeppelins seemed to have a future in military air power, a role that never came.

From New York Times

Why did zeppelins use hydrogen instead of helium, the American airship gas of choice?

From New York Times

People travel by helicopter, hot-air balloon and metal zeppelins.

From New York Times

The story centers on Lyra Belacqua, an orphan living at Jordan College in a parallel-world Oxford, in which zeppelins float and the gargoyles represent animal daemons.

From New York Times

Visually, the TV series recalls post-war Great Britain; technologically, it is both newer and older: There are metal zeppelins and mechanical “spy flies,” but I don’t remember anyone talking on a telephone.

From Los Angeles Times