How to Use airdrop in a Sentence

airdrop

noun
  • The group organized an airdrop of food for the refugees.
  • The scene around the airdrops can be equally abject.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Six countries have joined the airdrop campaign to this point, the source said.
    — Chris Boccia, ABC News, 29 July 2025
  • The captain made a distress call asking for an airdrop of guns.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Its airdrops of aid appear to be little more than gestures of goodwill.
    — Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Most airdrops go off with problems, or at least without news crews, but this is not the first time there's been trouble.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Jordan has been able to do airdrops to supply field hospitals.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Less than two days later, Federov announced that the airdrop was canceled.
    — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Among the tasks Tweto was filmed tackling were airdrops, in which gear is dropped off a plane midflight.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 18 June 2023
  • But aid groups say airdrops deliver only a fraction of what trucks can supply.
    — Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
  • After first hearing about the airdrop, Head initially planned to hold and not sell.
    — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The amount of aid delivered by a French plane in an airdrop last week was much less than a single truckload.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Pumping airdrops, drawing in customers with their new offers.
    — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Ukraine is not the first government to plan a cryptocurrency airdrop.
    — Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • This is not the first time the US government has carried out airdrops over conflict zones.
    — Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • In video from Utah, thousands of baby fish get the chance to fly down to their watery home via airdrop over the lakes they are sent to restock.
    — NBC News, 13 July 2021
  • The airdrop involved 70 aircraft taking off from four airfields.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Instead the airdrop serves, at great expense, to save trees in the wilderness, where burning, not suppression, might well do more good.
    — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2020
  • In its first airdrop, some of the top claimants took home more than $1 million in free crypto, according to Decrypt.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 1 June 2023
  • Federal officials have said there have been airdrops of relief supplies to places that are cut off and isolated.
    — Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The Caribou’s dramatic airdrops should be a regular sight in the war’s waning years.
    — David Axe, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2012
  • In Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, some aid-seekers cheered the latest airdrops of aid.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Aug. 2025
  • In Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, some aid-seekers cheered the latest airdrops of aid.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
  • But aid organizations say the airdrops fall far short of meeting needs when many are facing starvation.
    — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In return, many of the projects are committing airdrop tokens and other rewards to their supporters.
    — Tatiana Koffman, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • By Saturday there had been no airdrops for several days across Gaza, a break from almost daily ones.
    — Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Other tools like airdrops can attract Web3 fans who might be interested in the platform.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The aircraft achieves ultra-short takeoff and landing distances and can rapidly switch between cargo transport and airdrop modes.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In a video obtained by CNN, an airdrop was seen going wrong when the parachute on a pallet malfunctioned.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In recent months, countries including the United States, along with aid groups, have made more than 40 airdrops.
    — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024

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