How to Use blimp in a Sentence

blimp

noun
Definition of blimpnext
  • The blimp will head to the Youngstown area on Wednesday.
    — Robin Goist, cleveland, 12 June 2020
  • So the blimp took a shot and there was traffic on the bridge.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The blimp is meant to look like the beast sandwich, which packs half a pound of meat.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, the blimp had touched down on a beach about a mile away.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The shape of the old blimps was maintained by gas pressure.
    — Dake Kang, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2017
  • Among them: that space aliens pilot the Goodyear blimp.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The West Coast blimp has been taking to the skies since July 1.
    — oregonlive, 7 July 2022
  • And when the first Superbowl kicked off in 1967 on CBS, the blimp was there.
    — Danya Bacchus, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • In short, Goodyear is getting out of the blimp business.
    — Andrew Van Dam, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2018
  • The second key to the revival of the battle blimp is power.
    — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Quillin said he’d been intrigued by blimps ever since the World’s Fair.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
  • The blimp’s schedule for the Cleveland area kicks off Monday.
    — Robin Goist, cleveland, 12 June 2020
  • The blimp crashed just two years later in the Pacific Ocean off Big Sur.
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But the point of it was is that our Bat Team did everything in its power to get that blimp out of the city.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The blimp was flown by a civilian crew out of Los Angeles.
    — Thomas Ayres, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • In the grand field of the next presidential campaign, l’affair Fuentes might not even be a blimp.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Nov. 2022
  • At least half a dozen people on Twitter asked if the match was being shot from a blimp.
    — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2018
  • In the black-and-white world, for instance, there is a blimp in the background that has a Hydra logo on its front.
    — Carson Burton, Variety, 26 May 2022
  • In response to the blimps, Customs says most drug smugglers started to land ahead of the border and head for the U.S. by land.
    — Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Slime is right up there with Nick’s orange blimp as the show’s signature.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The team behind the blimp said one part of the story had ended with Trump leaving office this week.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Since that first Baby Trump showing in London, the idea of using such a blimp has spread.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
  • Trasker said Goodyear sent two blimps, named Puritan and Reliance, to the fair in July 1933.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
  • Developers in the room got to see live feeds from Glass-wearing parachutists who jumped from a blimp.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2012
  • The idea for a Trump baby blimp came to Murray last December.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 July 2018
  • The ultimate night of slime and orange blimps is almost here!
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 12 Mar. 2020
  • And the drifting blimp may announce the score at times in place of the massive JerryWorld JumboTron.
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Most human-sized beings couldn’t float without a blimp, of course.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Looked like a blimp, maybe On Thursday, Works gave a detailed account of the events on the night that changed Fyffe forever.
    — al, 25 June 2021
  • The blimp then began to rise as McElhenney wished Reynolds a happy birthday and the team members clapped in the background.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024

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