How to Use airboat in a Sentence

airboat

noun
  • At Chapman Pond, herbicide was applied by airboat because of the shallow water.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Outdoor enthusiasts must make a trip to see the crystal-clear blue waters of Wekiwa Springs State Park or book a swamp airboat tour.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2024
  • In 2015, Glen Powell posted a photo on Instagram of himself and Dufrene on an airboat.
    Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024
  • In the summer, Knik Glacier Tours will take you in an airboat to see the glacier up-close.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2021
  • In the distance, the hum of an airboat emanated from the lake.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
  • The airboat is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • In keeping with that mission, the law called for the use of airboats in the national park to be phased out.
    Lizette Alvarez, New York Times, 11 June 2016
  • They were met with a second airboat, which went out to the scene of the crash and carried the 15 people involved back to shore.
    Gal Tziperman Lotan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Head out on an airboat tour before or after your meal to see some of the state’s wildlife up close.
    Jp Shaffer, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Gray has an airboat and slaloms through marshes of Lake Okeechobee with ease.
    Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • There were fishing and leisure boats, airboats, jet skis and johnboats.
    Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The fifth person on the boat was Steve George Gagne, 52, of Miami, who had worked as an airboat captain in the past, the news site said.
    Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 16 May 2017
  • Rescue officials said the fuel atop the water posed too much of a risk for the airboats.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • But in late December she was treated to a first: an airboat ride.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Be bold and go on an airboat ride, or get outside during your lunch break to try out a local cafe.
    Sindy Castro, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • For a taste of adventure, take an airboat tour of the Everglades.
    Jacob Wisda, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
  • Trahan opted to pay $1,200 for an airboat ride just to see what had happened.
    Ashley Cusick, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Attaching a fan to some logs to make an ersatz airboat.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Gagne — the airboat operator — was not charged in the matter.
    Skyler Swisher, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • While on the airboat, expect to see alligators, wild boars and birds.
    Megan Dubois, Chron, 13 Mar. 2023
  • There are still a few salty duck hunters cruising the Salt Lake flats in airboats chasing the migration, but hell—all the real big-game hunters moved to Wyoming.
    Drew Palmer, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2020
  • But for a change of pace, take him on an airboat tour with Booggy Creek Airboat Adventures.
    Essence, 14 June 2019
  • All three of the injured – a man, a woman and a child – were brought by airboat to a small parking lot near the Reflection Lake exit off the Glenn Highway.
    Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2018
  • Teams at the site of the plane wreckage spent nearly two months removing debris by hand and taking it to dry land aboard airboats.
    Lisa J. Huriash, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • In the Cajun Bayou, watch alligators from the safety of your pontoon boat or take a thrilling ride on a high-speed airboat through the swamp.
    Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
  • In the Cajun Bayou, watch alligators from the safety of your pontoon boat or take a thrilling ride on a high-speed airboat through the swamp.
    Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Parts of Inslee’s event, streamed on his Facebook page, were sometimes nearly drowned out by the noise from nearby airboats.
    Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 24 June 2019
  • Tommie sat in the cab of a purple airboat, filming with a camcorder as his friend carved through the estuarine maze.
    Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • On the 20th anniversary of the crash, relatives gathered at the memorial and board on airboats to visit the tragic site.
    miamiherald, 11 May 2016
  • While a brief spraying pause was enacted last year, the airboats and helicopters keep spraying for now.
    Bill Weir and Shelby Rose, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020

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