How to Use airship in a Sentence

airship

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  • One of the highlights of the film takes place in the German zeppelin airship.
    — Susan King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The crew of the airship Quin Zaza sets out on a dragon hunt.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Still, this did not end the quest for an airship future.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The next day, a lightning strike caused the cable to break on the second airship.
    — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The airship’s engines churned; its ground speed slowed.
    — Eva Holland, Smithsonian, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The Graf Zeppelin signaled the end of airship dreams in Alaska.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Now much lighter, what was left of the airship simply floated away.
    — Diana Preston, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
  • There have been many attempts to build airships of this type in recent years.
    — Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2017
  • A crust of ice began to form on the airship’s giant balloon.
    — Eva Holland, Smithsonian, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The new airships are also much faster, clocking up to 73 mph, while the older blimps maxed out at 50 mph.
    — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Whether airships are what the U.S. government has in mind remains to be seen.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Much of the action takes place aboard an airship called the Elsinore, and there are references in the script that reflect that.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Passengers will be able to descend from the airship and enjoy a picnic on the ice cap.
    — Miquel Ros, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Hoddé told Robb Report the residence can be tugged by the airship when in water.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But the fiery crash of the British airship R101, seven years earlier, killed more people.
    — Travis Pinson, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Safran will also be working on the electric motors for the airship.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The two countries issued competing claims about the nature of the airship.
    — David Pierson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Many people think this was built as a docking space for blimps and airships in the 1930s but historians say this isn't the case.
    — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The airships were capable of speeds of up to 85 miles per hour and could carry two tons of high-explosive bombs.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Crossing the Atlantic by airship, in about 2½ days, seemed amazing.
    — Michael J. Socolow, Slate Magazine, 5 May 2017
  • The airship will carry a crew of seven, including a chef.
    — Miquel Ros, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Fully inflated, the airship would be nearly three times the size of a Boeing 747.
    — NBC News, 5 June 2018
  • The airships used their hooks to recover the planes and retract them into the hangars built into these cavernous ships.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 May 2018
  • The year before, the airship had made 10 such flights without incident.
    — Eric Larsen, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Others were carried away in the cabin when the gas balloon on the airship hoisted it back into the air, never to be seen again.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The airship gondola further serves as the baroness’s dressing room.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • With the aid of an airship, police searched for the suspects, but were unsuccessful in finding them.
    — Andy Nguyen, Glendale News-Press, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Several wanted to know why the Chinese airship was allowed to float all the way to the Atlantic Ocean before it was shot down.
    — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The airship was attempting to dock when the hydrogen used to keep it aloft ignited.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2024
  • The impact detonated the 5.5 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen in the airship’s 15 gasbags.
    — Dominic Green, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023

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