How to Use airboat in a Sentence

airboat

noun
  • Davis said many airboat drivers in the area had to close shop.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Take an airboat ride through the sawgrass.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • There were fishing and leisure boats, airboats, jet skis and johnboats.
    — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Head out on an airboat tour before or after your meal to see some of the state’s wildlife up close.
    — Jp Shaffer, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
  • In the distance, the hum of an airboat emanated from the lake.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
  • The airboat is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Be bold and go on an airboat ride, or get outside during your lunch break to try out a local cafe.
    — Sindy Castro, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • But the airboat wouldn’t oblige—the carcasses were weighing it down.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Three minutes later another group of hunters on a airboat caught up to them.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The video shows the men aboard an airboat firing at the alligator more than a dozen times.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • Lana Del Rey may be seeing an airboat captain/swamp-tour guide.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Gray has an airboat and slaloms through marshes of Lake Okeechobee with ease.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Or, take an airboat tour of the Everglades to see wildlife waking up.
    — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026
  • In keeping with that mission, the law called for the use of airboats in the national park to be phased out.
    — Lizette Alvarez, New York Times, 11 June 2016
  • While on the airboat, expect to see alligators, wild boars and birds.
    — Megan Dubois, Chron, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Rescue officials said the fuel atop the water posed too much of a risk for the airboats.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • Rescue officials said the fuel atop the water posed too much of a risk for the airboats.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The airboat left after about 10 minutes.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Gagne — the airboat operator — was not charged in the matter.
    — Skyler Swisher, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • In the summer, Knik Glacier Tours will take you in an airboat to see the glacier up-close.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2021
  • The airboat is the magic carpet of swamp transportation.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For a taste of adventure, take an airboat tour of the Everglades.
    — Jacob Wisda, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
  • Trahan opted to pay $1,200 for an airboat ride just to see what had happened.
    — Ashley Cusick, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
  • With a barely perceptible lurch, the airboat hurdled the canal bank and seemed to hover above it.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • While a brief spraying pause was enacted last year, the airboats and helicopters keep spraying for now.
    — Bill Weir and Shelby Rose, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Teams at the site of the plane wreckage spent nearly two months removing debris by hand and taking it to dry land aboard airboats.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • About that time, another airboat came roaring through our decoys, intent on catching the bad guys.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
  • They were met with a second airboat, which went out to the scene of the crash and carried the 15 people involved back to shore.
    — Gal Tziperman Lotan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The post kicked off with photos of Del Rey and Dufrene posing and kissing on an airboat.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Tommie sat in the cab of a purple airboat, filming with a camcorder as his friend carved through the estuarine maze.
    — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024

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