How to Use airboat in a Sentence

airboat

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• 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
• 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
• People issued a captain’s license by the U.S. Coast Guard would be exempt from the last requirement but would have to have their license on board the airboat.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Officials had to use airboats to evacuate some of the seniors as the waters continued to rise.
  — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• While the plantation segments of the tour are suitable for just about anyone, the airboat portion is aimed at thrill seekers who don't mind tearing through the swamp at top speeds.
  — Andrew Parks, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• But as night came on, the search continued with a handful of airboats equipped with floodlights and generators.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
• The organization has so far lent airboats and a hovercraft to Strain's case.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024