How to Use hovercraft in a Sentence

hovercraft

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  • The hovercraft has been Riese’s labor of love for more than a decade.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • In that case, try one of the showcase events, which might ask you to race against a hovercraft or train.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018
  • Whether on horseback or in a hovercraft, a fool’s feet never touch the ground.
    — Garret Keizer, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • And our mission was to use our yellow cat hovercraft to find dry land and start a new life.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The down-tempo track crawls, but like the hovercraft-Chevy in the track’s video, seems to float effortlessly.
    — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Like a hovercraft, the gas cushion makes the ice highly mobile.
    — Christopher Crockett, Scientific American, 19 June 2013
  • There will be Marines on board, and some combat vehicles could be in the hold of the ship, as well as hovercraft that launch from the rear of the vessel, Arnold said.
    — Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Trying to kill that animal wasn't the problem; the hovercraft was.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • As the guests disembarked, many ignored the light rain to pose for pictures with Sturgeon’s hovercraft, which was in the parking lot.
    — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The car’s body dropped 1.53 inches to its hovercraft-like ride height of 2 inches, nearly catching my toe.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • Apparently one of them was able to call 911 on a cell phone and the fire department was able to get its hovercraft out there and rescue them.
    — Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
  • At one point King Cove received millions of federal dollars to buy a fast hovercraft, and a road was built to a landing site near the refuge.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • On Thursday morning, sheriff's officials used a hovercraft to break the ice around the swan, then draped a blanket over its head and removed it from the lake.
    — Erin McGarry, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Switalski piloted the hovercraft while Howard approached the swan with a blanket on the ice.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Now McCartney is at work in his garage building a hovercraft.
    — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The result feels more like a hovercraft than a traditional boat.
    — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Like Mario Kart, the game involves steering a hovercraft through whimsical race tracks.
    — Celia Ford, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The sensation was like gliding on a hovercraft above the Beethovenian waves.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Bucking ponies and hovercrafts Suzanne, Carolyn and Katherine talked about learning to ride as wee ones seated in front of their dad on his saddle.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 10 July 2019
  • There wasn’t a player piano in sight during the premiere episode, only sleek high rises and hovercraft.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Mathur, a senior at Naperville North, led 12 students to design and build a hovercraft from the ground up earlier this summer.
    — Naperville Sun, 25 July 2017
  • The final moments, captured in breathtaking detail by cameras below the hovercraft, show the rover landing in a cloud of dust.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Remarkably for a place that is hundreds of miles from the sea, the château not only has a small naval exhibit, but is home also to several Bertin hovercraft.
    — Miquel Ros, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • In January of this year, a similar case was reported in Massachusetts in which a dog had to be rescued from a frozen pond with the aid of a hovercraft.
    — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • If confirmed, Kavanaugh will face a case about the right of a moose hunter to use his hovercraft on an Interior Alaska waterway.
    — Erica Martinson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
  • The park service bans hovercraft over concerns about noise and potential damage to wetlands and tundra.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2018
  • Sturgeon was hunting moose by hovercraft – a vessel the Park Service doesn’t allow, but state law does – in a national preserve when the Park Service stopped him.
    — Author: Liz Ruskin, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Comfort mode is perfect for around town, with its welcome delivery of hovercraft-like isolation from the road.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 5 June 2017
  • All the while, Kenny says, hovercraft skimmed over the water and Coast Guard helicopters circled over their apartment building, dipping low.
    — Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Recent photos seem to confirm China is building its own high-speed assault hovercraft.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023

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