How to Use airdrop in a Sentence

airdrop

noun
Definition of airdropnext
  • The group organized an airdrop of food for the refugees.
  • And on top of that, look, the airdrops are very important.
    — Mark Joyella, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The captain made a distress call asking for an airdrop of guns.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Among the tasks Tweto was filmed tackling were airdrops, in which gear is dropped off a plane midflight.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 18 June 2023
  • Got inspired to build a little airdrop helper app tonight.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 17 June 2022
  • This is not the first time the US government has carried out airdrops over conflict zones.
    — Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The amount of aid delivered by a French plane in an airdrop last week was much less than a single truckload.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In video from Utah, thousands of baby fish get the chance to fly down to their watery home via airdrop over the lakes they are sent to restock.
    — NBC News, 13 July 2021
  • Most airdrops go off with problems, or at least without news crews, but this is not the first time there's been trouble.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Less than two days later, Federov announced that the airdrop was canceled.
    — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2022
  • After first hearing about the airdrop, Head initially planned to hold and not sell.
    — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2022
  • In its first airdrop, some of the top claimants took home more than $1 million in free crypto, according to Decrypt.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 1 June 2023
  • After all, just this week, blockchain project Dfinity launched a $35 million giveaway of its tokens—billing the event as the largest airdrop to date.
    — Jen Wieczner, Fortune, 31 May 2018
  • Instead the airdrop serves, at great expense, to save trees in the wilderness, where burning, not suppression, might well do more good.
    — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Biden announced that the U.S. will be initiating airdrops of food and supplies.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
  • In a video obtained by CNN, an airdrop was seen going wrong when the parachute on a pallet malfunctioned.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In recent months, countries including the United States, along with aid groups, have made more than 40 airdrops.
    — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Caribou’s dramatic airdrops should be a regular sight in the war’s waning years.
    — David Axe, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2012
  • Jordan has been able to do airdrops to supply field hospitals.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Ukraine is not the first government to plan a cryptocurrency airdrop.
    — Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Somehow, one suspects, the bubble must be pierced, the relentless normal of the Marvel-verse must be reset for the next airdrop of content.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
  • So the nine cargo planes taking part in Friday’s daily airdrop were carrying the bulk of the aid that would reach 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The example given involved an airdrop on the first day, which then pivots into a standard Conquest match on the second map, and so on.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 23 May 2018
  • Ryder disputed reports that an airdrop from a U.S. aircraft was to blame.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The airdrop involved 70 aircraft taking off from four airfields.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Aid groups say airdrops should be only a last resort and instead urge the opening of other crossings into Gaza and the removal of obstacles at the few that are open.
    — Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Some passengers and crew got sick en route, and after days of quarantine at sea and a helicopter airdrop of testing kits, the ship docked in Oakland on March 9.
    — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 16 Mar. 2020
  • In return, many of the projects are committing airdrop tokens and other rewards to their supporters.
    — Tatiana Koffman, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • The Soldier Center’s purview these days includes not just textiles and uniforms but shelters, airdrop systems, weaponry, and food.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • But aid organizations say the airdrops fall far short of meeting needs when many are facing starvation.
    — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024

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