How to Use helicopter in a Sentence

helicopter

1 of 2 noun
  • There’s even a spot to land your helicopter!
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There are helicopter shots and two drones.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Searchers combed the area on foot and by helicopter and trapped four bears.
    — Emily Wanderer, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Searchers combed the area on foot and by helicopter and trapped four bears.
    — Emily Wanderer, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The video then cuts to two Apache helicopters whirling up.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 2 May 2026
  • There were four people on the helicopter at the time of the crash.
    — Raja Razek, CNN, 20 June 2023
  • It is armed with a main gun and can carry helicopters.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Video showed the helicopter on its side and in between two planes.
    — Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • The helicopter made a right-hand turn to avoid the Beechcraft.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Searches on foot, plane and helicopter did not find her.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • The couple’s third child was not on the helicopter.
    — CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Drones and helicopters can work ahead of a dog, but the bloodhound is hard to beat.
    — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This chick has helicopters landing her on set.
    — Jeff Pearlman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In the meantime, here's the helicopter in flight.
    — Ben Coxworth october 21, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Ground teams were joined by search dogs while drones, helicopters, and planes have flown overhead.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • She had been woken up by the sound of a helicopter during the search.
    — Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Some Marines move by helicopter.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The two crew members on that helicopter were able to be rescued.
    — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Even the aerial shots have the jiggle and quiver of a helicopter, not a drone.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Patients and staff fled to the roof and were rescued by helicopters.
    — Brett Kelman, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Or, go by helicopter and get an aerial view of the many whales that frequent the area.
    — Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The flume was hoisted by helicopter and anchored to the canyon bedrock.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Turned the helicopter around so the gunners could take care of business.
    — Time Staff, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Then a black military-style helicopter swooped in low over the field.
    — Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Then there was Christie's use of a helicopter to go watch his son play baseball.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 June 2023
  • Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.
    — Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Get a bird’s-eye view of the Dolomites on a glamorous helicopter ride.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
  • From here they were shuttled to their starting point via helicopter.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
  • Mark died in a helicopter crash in 1989.
    — Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Kevin said police scoured the area with canines, helicopters and drones.
    — Kyani Reid, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025

helicopter

2 of 2 verb
  • The contact helicoptered me into the air and then down to the ice.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Some survivors and the bodies of victims were helicoptered out.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Helicopter in for the game, then helicopter out and everyone loves you.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 27 Nov. 2021
  • In the next 50 years, a man may be able to helicopter right out of his backyard and onto the roof of his office building.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The freshman capped the drive with his scramble, helicoptering off a defender into the end zone.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Their parents must be a sort of Tiger Mom, helicoptering their way through their families’ days, right?
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The couple was helicoptered to safety and treated for exposure.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 26 Feb. 2020
  • But in the zero gravity era, going to space will be no more dramatic than helicoptering out to an offshore oil rig.
    — Charles Fishman, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
  • But in the zero gravity era, going to space will be no more dramatic than helicoptering out to an offshore oil rig.
    — Charles Fishman, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • But helicoptering in to glean talking points differs greatly from composing one’s own system and game plans.
    — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Nearly half a million concertgoers left the roads so clogged, musicians had to be helicoptered in.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The lumber split just above his hands, and the barrel helicoptered into the high, protective netting behind home plate on the first base side.
    — Ben Walker, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Both Milling and Nanook were helicoptered out and the husky was later returned to its owner in Girdwood.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2019
  • The lumber shattered just above his hands, and the barrel helicoptered into the high, protective netting behind home plate on the first base side.
    — Ben Walker, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Parents are hovering and helicoptering and snowplowing in ways that are so toxic for their children.
    — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 14 June 2019
  • The harbor unit has responded to everything from speed demons cruising the high seas to drunken ferry passengers to helicopter crashes.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Two days of snowfall followed, and by Friday, snow was neck-deep and several avalanches had occurred, a veteran mountain guide who was helicoptered out of the area said.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2020
  • However, in the episode’s final moments, the show pulled the punch — and showed Grimes being rescued and helicoptered off to destinations unknown.
    — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2018
  • During Hurricane Katrina, Fats was helicoptered from his rooftop to safety and lost all the contents of his home.
    — Adam Weiner, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
  • These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school, or who didn’t go to college and can’t provide much help with it.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Workers have reported feeling hungry, frustrated and mistreated, with some now discussing paying out of their own pockets to helicopter a food drop into the remote area.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Emergency rescuers helicoptered Cargo to a hospital, and doctors inserted a stent into his coronary artery.
    — Matt Maynard, Outside Online, 25 June 2018
  • Morrill was shortly whisked away by ambulance and then helicopter out of Virginia and to a hospital in Bristol, Tennessee.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2019
  • In a common scenario, mountain guides exploit inexperienced trekkers by pressuring them to be helicoptered back to Kathmandu at the first minor signs of illness.
    — Kai Schultz, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • The 41-year-old actress and Elba were helicoptered to the peak of the Canadian Rockies every day while shooting the romantic thriller.
    — Yvonne Juris, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2017
  • Assuming the lava sticks around for a bit and doesn’t retreat back underground, visitation to the National Park will surely increase, as will helicopter fly-over tours.
    — Will McGough, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Troops would need to collect the material from several places, secure an airstrip near each, truck or helicopter the equipment and material to and from the strip, and defend against attacks on the preparations and shipments.
    — Matthew Bunn, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Dino Escudero Alcántara said the area was inaccessible by land, so emergency responders were helicoptered down to the site or arrived by boat.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
  • There was even the time the American was helicoptered off a mountain after a body-battering crash during downhill training at the 2006 Turin Olympics.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Before Jack can really rip into him, Nicky is helicoptered away from the scene, leaving the Mystery Woman completely inconsolable.
    — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Jan. 2019

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