How to Use dirigible in a Sentence

dirigible

1 of 2 adjective
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  • The concept of the dirigible started as a joke that Sesshu was riffing off.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • There is an urban legend that the building's tower and orb were once used as a port for a dirigible.
    — Janelle James, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2021
  • But these options do sound nice: a Swedish firm has already ordered a dirigible outfitted with deluxe cabins for trips over the North Pole.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • The sky is punctuated by a hot-air balloon, a dirigible and a zooming biplane.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • The grandest commercial dirigible the world has ever seen.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • The 10 days of derring-do acrobatics and races by celebrity plane and dirigible pilots did far more than even Los Angeles boosters might have dreamed.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The name Kanye West shall assign himself after surviving a dirigible crash.
    — David Kamp, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Photos from later sightings appear to show the craft was an enormous white dirigible with an undercarriage described by one U.S. official as the size of three buses.
    — ABC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • 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.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Traveling in a failing dirigible, de Maistre visits Xavi, a contemporary girl who discovers that her own room offers hidden adventure.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • According to the company, dirigible travel will emit ninety per cent less carbon dioxide per passenger mile than a standard airplane—and, by 2030, an all-electric version may eliminate emissions entirely.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • Stettheimer was bringing popular magazines and window displays and musical-comedy manners into an art that was bound to look frivolous but that was as purposefully light as a dirigible, permanently afloat.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The answer is to blow up small distinctions into dirigible-size differences, manufacture disagreements and go after rivals on attributes such as demeanor, character and temperament.
    — Columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The concept of the dirigible started as a joke that Sesshu was riffing off.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • There is an urban legend that the building's tower and orb were once used as a port for a dirigible.
    — Janelle James, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2021
  • But these options do sound nice: a Swedish firm has already ordered a dirigible outfitted with deluxe cabins for trips over the North Pole.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • The sky is punctuated by a hot-air balloon, a dirigible and a zooming biplane.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • The grandest commercial dirigible the world has ever seen.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • The 10 days of derring-do acrobatics and races by celebrity plane and dirigible pilots did far more than even Los Angeles boosters might have dreamed.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The name Kanye West shall assign himself after surviving a dirigible crash.
    — David Kamp, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Photos from later sightings appear to show the craft was an enormous white dirigible with an undercarriage described by one U.S. official as the size of three buses.
    — ABC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • 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.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Traveling in a failing dirigible, de Maistre visits Xavi, a contemporary girl who discovers that her own room offers hidden adventure.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • According to the company, dirigible travel will emit ninety per cent less carbon dioxide per passenger mile than a standard airplane—and, by 2030, an all-electric version may eliminate emissions entirely.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • Stettheimer was bringing popular magazines and window displays and musical-comedy manners into an art that was bound to look frivolous but that was as purposefully light as a dirigible, permanently afloat.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The answer is to blow up small distinctions into dirigible-size differences, manufacture disagreements and go after rivals on attributes such as demeanor, character and temperament.
    — Columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
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dirigible

2 of 2 noun
  • Known to love dirigibles, Brin would use the blimp, which could cost as much as $150 million, for personal travel, too.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 28 May 2017
  • So, for a dirigible to work on Saturn, its entire interior would have to be a vacuum.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
  • The staging involved everything from floating dirigibles to nearly 100 live sheep.
    — Anthony Tommasini, Zachary Woolfe, Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, David Allen and James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2016
  • Some sources reported dirigibles powered by steam engines.
    — Greg Eghigian, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Gadgets abound but her main secret weapon is the dirigible that, perpetually hovering in the clouds, can be used for surveillance and the application of knockout drugs, as well as facilitating various abductions, thefts and escapes.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Americans also loved scenes from abroad, peering excitedly at Egyptian camels, Central American women pounding tortilla flour, dirigibles in flight, exploding volcanoes.
    — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Known to love dirigibles, Brin would use the blimp, which could cost as much as $150 million, for personal travel, too.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 28 May 2017
  • So, for a dirigible to work on Saturn, its entire interior would have to be a vacuum.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
  • The staging involved everything from floating dirigibles to nearly 100 live sheep.
    — Anthony Tommasini, Zachary Woolfe, Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, David Allen and James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2016
  • Some sources reported dirigibles powered by steam engines.
    — Greg Eghigian, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Gadgets abound but her main secret weapon is the dirigible that, perpetually hovering in the clouds, can be used for surveillance and the application of knockout drugs, as well as facilitating various abductions, thefts and escapes.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Americans also loved scenes from abroad, peering excitedly at Egyptian camels, Central American women pounding tortilla flour, dirigibles in flight, exploding volcanoes.
    — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017

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