dirigible

How To Use dirigible In A Sentence

• Planners had hoped to build the airship at the world's largest hangar, which was erected by the CargoLifter corporation 25 miles south of Berlin to house freight dirigibles.
• When he opened his eyes the dirigible was making another turn, less precipitous than before and — he hadn’t realized, but now saw through ragged gaps in the fog — at a lower altitude, some two hundred feet above what looked like a low fennish grassland, with scarcely a single tree in sight. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
• Sept. 24, 1852: A new invention called a dirigible creeps through the air from Paris to Trappe, France, taking three hours to travel 17 miles. We'll Be Circling For Awhile
• And the style of the dirigible is only limited to the imagination! TeeMorris.com » Blog Archive » GUEST BLOGPOST: Wherein the Tinker’s Art Is Discussed
• Eight teams piloted their dirigibles (a task significantly more difficult than it may seem), while a crowd of spectators cheered them on.
• The first of the great long-distance passenger dirigibles, the Graf Zeppelin, went into service in 1928.
• The US Navy lost interest after two enormous dirigibles, equipped with unique little biplane fighters that hung on hooks below them, went down at sea with the loss of all hands.
• I have to admit a secret love for the word dirigible here, too, which Buckell uses almost immediately in the story. Tides from the New Worlds: Aerophilia « A Working Title
• One of helium's better-known, but less commercially important, applications is in lighter-than-air craft, such as dirigibles, and in weather and research balloons.
• It contained some illustrations of what a city in the year 2000 would look like - giant skyscrapers separated by 20 lane highways, dozens of dirigibles and hundreds of airplanes flying between the buildings.