43 examples of dirigible in sentences

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Suppose such terms as Zeppelin, blimp, monoplane, biplane, hydroplane, dirigible have no definite import for us.

The dirigible is kept as much as possible out of range of the enemy's guns while it lowers a steel cage, attached to a steel rope, 200 or 300 feet long.

"The latest data show that Germany has sixty stations, including private dirigible hangars, while France has thirty, in most cases of greater extent than those in Germany, Russia, eight months ago, had ten, but it is believed that this number has been increased twofold since that time.

CENTERS FROM WHICH KAISER WILLIAM'S DIRIGIBLE

We call him the young dirigible because he's always going up in the air.

Nobody had piloted the way in a Yankee-made seaplane; nor had any one navigated the air passage in a monster dirigible.

Everybody believes it must be the airdrome sheltering the dirigible Britain sent over here for use, and which lies further down the coast.

But then, of course, he could not foresee how even before the peace treaty had been signed a number of ambitious aviators would actually cross the Atlantic, one crew in a huge heavier-than-air machine, another in an American seaplane, and still a third aboard a mighty dirigible, making the passages with but a day or so intervening between flights.

balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane^; hydroplane; aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite, parachute.

In general, Santos-Dumont worked on the theory of the dirigible balloonthat is, one that might be controlled and made to go in any direction desired, by means of a motor and propeller carried by a buoyant gas-bag.

With but three minutes left and some distance to go, the great dirigible balloon got up speed and rushed for the goal.

Santos-Dumont himself says that the world is still a long way from practical, everyday aerial navigation, but he points out the apparent fact that the dirigible balloon in the hands of determined men will practically put a stop to war.

Drifting along the cliff highway, which runs back of the fortifications that defend the port of San Francisco, you drop down past the dirigible hangar of the United States Army Flying Corps.

Tom Swift and his big dirigible.

Tom Swift and his big dirigible.

Flying to the rescue; or, Ted Scott and the big dirigible, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud. Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers.

Tom Swift and his big dirigible; or, Adventures over the forest of fire, by Victor Appleton, pseud.

The dirigible book.

The dirigible book; a photographic picture book with a story, by William Clayton Pryor & Helen Sloman Pryor.

He's out; dirigible hangar.

Flying to the rescue; or, Ted Scott and the big dirigible, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud. Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers.

Tom Swift and his big dirigible; or, Adventures over the forest of fire, by Victor Appleton, pseud.

He's out; dirigible hangar.

[Illustration: Dirigible Balloon] * *

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