How to Use airship in a Sentence

airship

noun
  • Aerostats, airships, and blimps aren’t new.
    — Tracy Staedter, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Rigid airships keep their shape whether they are filled with gas or not.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
  • Byrd had used a plane, and Amundsen an airship.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 12 May 2026
  • An airship later lowered a medic, who found that all three men had died.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Now much lighter, what was left of the airship simply floated away.
    — Diana Preston, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
  • There have been many attempts to build airships of this type in recent years.
    — Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2017
  • In the evening, an airship lowered in a medic who confirmed all three deaths.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Are blimps and airships making a comeback?
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Kidnapped, she will be carried to the airship and open it to the rest of her party.
    — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The next day, a lightning strike caused the cable to break on the second airship.
    — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2021
  • But critics were quick to point out that airships’ giant size hindered this aim.
    — Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
  • One of the highlights of the film takes place in the German zeppelin airship.
    — Susan King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Safran will also be working on the electric motors for the airship.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2023
  • So what's the difference between a blimp and other kinds of airship?
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Passengers will be able to descend from the airship and enjoy a picnic on the ice cap.
    — Miquel Ros, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The airship gondola further serves as the baroness’s dressing room.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • How did anyone get away with flying people on a hydrogen airship?
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • The two countries issued competing claims about the nature of the airship.
    — David Pierson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Crossing the Atlantic by airship, in about 2½ days, seemed amazing.
    — Michael J. Socolow, Slate Magazine, 5 May 2017
  • The airship was attempting to dock when the hydrogen used to keep it aloft ignited.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2024
  • The airships used their hooks to recover the planes and retract them into the hangars built into these cavernous ships.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 May 2018
  • With the aid of an airship, police searched for the suspects, but were unsuccessful in finding them.
    — Andy Nguyen, Glendale News-Press, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The year before, the airship had made 10 such flights without incident.
    — Eric Larsen, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Disaster relief is one unique use for airships, said Leishman.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The iconic Goodyear airships are taking a victory lap over the skies of an Ohio city this week.
    — Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune, 3 June 2025
  • Pathfinder 1 is a rigid airship, not technically a blimp.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
  • There was a group of sea scouts who were holding onto an airship, and a gust of wind blew the ship into the air and pulled them hundreds of feet with it.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Hoddé told Robb Report the residence can be tugged by the airship when in water.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The new airships are also much faster, clocking up to 73 mph, while the older blimps maxed out at 50 mph.
    — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • According to a press statement, Sceye’s airships are designed to stay aloft for months or even years at a time.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr. 2026

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