How to Use aeronaut in a Sentence

aeronaut

noun
  • On the way down, the aeronaut, having toasted to freedom, dropped leaflets of the new constitution.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Prescot also brought renowned Swedish aeronaut Per Lindstrand aboard to pilot the balloon.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Jacques was the son of Auguste, similarly renowned as an aeronaut, inventor and physicist.
    — Cnn Staff; Story By Tom Page, CNN, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Drawn from contrasting backgrounds, success would mean entirely different things for the two aeronauts.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2026
  • James then seeks out Amelia Wren, an aeronaut who recently lost her husband, to help co-pilot his expedition.
    — Umber Bhatti, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Intrepid aeronauts of the past really did make a parachute of the balloon and witness butterflies at surprisingly high altitudes.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2019
  • That thread gets developed in stultifying flashbacks that detail Amelia's efforts to strike out on her own as an aeronaut after her husband falls to his death during one of their rides together.
    — Mark Lieberman, Houston Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Jones portrays a well-off widow named Amelia Wren, an idealistic, gifted yet fictional aeronaut who’d rather hover on the edge of the atmosphere than adhere to the typical duties expected of the women of her era.
    — Tomris Laffly, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The mystery aeronaut has been spotted at least twice before, in the summer and fall, but now there’s video, posted to the Instagram account of the Sling Pilot Academy, a local aviation school.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2020
  • With each Starship designed to hold 100 aeronauts, Musk predicts 10,000 flights of the capsule over the course of 20 years will populate this first city with one million human Martians.
    — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That means if the rocket is terminated after just two jaunts to the Moon, sending a total of eight aeronauts on the Artemis II and III missions, NASA will have spent more than $10 billion on each astronaut’s lunar trek.
    — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Elsewhere, the Lisbon festival will screen Fernando Vendrell’s Alem do Horizonte – A Travessia (Beyond the Horizon – The Crossing), which recalls early 20th-century Portuguese aeronauts Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho as the first aviators to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a single leg.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025

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