How to Use balloonist in a Sentence

balloonist

noun
  • There was no damage to the school or any of the homes the balloonist flew over.
    — CBS News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Guertin is one of about 20 hot-air balloonists expected to attend the event.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • There are racquetball and handball players, even a hot air balloonist.
    — Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • At its base lies a large circular meadow protected from wind—a hot-air balloonist’s paradise.
    — Bill Newcott, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • That’s why amateur balloonists call them pico balloons.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Amateur pico balloonists - please, please delay launching your floating balloons for a while, maybe a month.
    — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Clairton was once bustling with movie theaters, a mix of grocery stores, and riverside parks, with a dance pavilion and a performing hot-air balloonist.
    — Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The balloonists hope to separate themselves from each other through amenities and the experience.
    — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 2 July 2024
  • Everything from wind conditions to equipment failure to thunderstorms had gotten in the way of prospective balloonists.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The two 'Theory of Everything' alums are in talks to star as 19th century hot air balloonists.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2017
  • Poe developed a sensational story in which a famed balloonist navigated across the Atlantic in just three days.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Uber balloonists will then be picked up in an UberX, driven to the festival, and dropped off with Rainbow Ryders, the area's most famous hot air balloon service, to head up in the air.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Affordable, yet luxurious this brand is all about bright, vibrant color and fun balloonist shapes—and $3 from each piece sold online goes to benefit a charity in Nigeria that supports women entrepreneurs there.
    — Essence, 17 July 2024
  • The film, which cost $40 million to make, stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as 19th-century balloonists.
    — Jake Coyle, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2019
  • The series will delve into Aoki’s colorful life as a mogul and businessman, from founding Benihana to being an Olympic wrestler, professional speed boat racer, hot air balloonist, and nightclub impresario.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 8 June 2022
  • The writers have taken great pains while inventing Jones’ character, Amelia Wren, an amalgam of real pioneering female balloonists, to give her a tragic backstory in line with the women who took to the skies at great risk of life and limb.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019
  • All exist on history’s fringes, not forefathers or foremothers but frustrated artists, defeated revolutionaries, monks, nuns, eccentric balloonists and social deviants.
    — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • In 1912, a young meteorologist and champion balloonist named Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had once fit together but then drifted apart.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Running in parallel to the storylines of Piccard and Jones is the global race of the time where many prominent figures, from accomplished aviators to billionaire Richard Branson, were trying to become the first around-the-globe balloonists.
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Three New Mexico balloonists flew Double Eagle II 3,100 miles from Maine to France in 137 hours, 6 minutes.
    — Daily Briefing, AZCentral.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Amelia was actually inspired by several historical female aeronauts, most notably Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to find work as a professional balloonist when her balloonist husband, Jean-Pierre, died.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2019
  • In 1912, Alfred Wegener, a dashing German meteorologist and record-setting balloonist, concurred, and further suggested that the landmasses once composed a supercontinent, which broke into pieces that drifted apart.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Imagination Bethesda Bethesda Urban Partnership’s 23rd annual children’s street festival offers musical performances, professional children’s entertainers, arts-and-crafts activities, face painters, balloonists, a stilt walker, giveaways and more.
    — Carrie Donovan, Washington Post, 31 May 2017

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