How to Use blimp in a Sentence
blimp
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More than 50 arches of Douglas fir, like a giant rib cage, were curved to accommodate the giant blimps.
— Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 8 June 2024 -
The blimp will head to the Youngstown area on Wednesday.
— Robin Goist, cleveland, 12 June 2020 -
So the blimp took a shot and there was traffic on the bridge.
— Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019 -
The blimp is meant to look like the beast sandwich, which packs half a pound of meat.
— Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023 -
Instead, the blimp had touched down on a beach about a mile away.
— Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2022 -
The shape of the old blimps was maintained by gas pressure.
— Dake Kang, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2017 -
Among them: that space aliens pilot the Goodyear blimp.
— Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021 -
The West Coast blimp has been taking to the skies since July 1.
— oregonlive, 7 July 2022 -
And when the first Superbowl kicked off in 1967 on CBS, the blimp was there.
— Danya Bacchus, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2023 -
In short, Goodyear is getting out of the blimp business.
— Andrew Van Dam, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2018 -
The second key to the revival of the battle blimp is power.
— Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2021 -
Quillin said he’d been intrigued by blimps ever since the World’s Fair.
— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019 -
The blimp’s schedule for the Cleveland area kicks off Monday.
— Robin Goist, cleveland, 12 June 2020 -
The blimp crashed just two years later in the Pacific Ocean off Big Sur.
— Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024 -
But the point of it was is that our Bat Team did everything in its power to get that blimp out of the city.
— Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2022 -
The blimp was flown by a civilian crew out of Los Angeles.
— Thomas Ayres, WSJ, 13 May 2021 -
In the grand field of the next presidential campaign, l’affair Fuentes might not even be a blimp.
— Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Nov. 2022 -
At least half a dozen people on Twitter asked if the match was being shot from a blimp.
— Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2018 -
In the black-and-white world, for instance, there is a blimp in the background that has a Hydra logo on its front.
— Carson Burton, Variety, 26 May 2022 -
In response to the blimps, Customs says most drug smugglers started to land ahead of the border and head for the U.S. by land.
— Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024 -
Slime is right up there with Nick’s orange blimp as the show’s signature.
— Paul Grein, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2022 -
The team behind the blimp said one part of the story had ended with Trump leaving office this week.
— Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2021 -
Since that first Baby Trump showing in London, the idea of using such a blimp has spread.
— Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018 -
Trasker said Goodyear sent two blimps, named Puritan and Reliance, to the fair in July 1933.
— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019 -
Developers in the room got to see live feeds from Glass-wearing parachutists who jumped from a blimp.
— Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2012 -
The idea for a Trump baby blimp came to Murray last December.
— Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 July 2018 -
The ultimate night of slime and orange blimps is almost here!
— Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 12 Mar. 2020 -
And the drifting blimp may announce the score at times in place of the massive JerryWorld JumboTron.
— Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2022 -
Most human-sized beings couldn’t float without a blimp, of course.
— WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022 -
The blimp then began to rise as McElhenney wished Reynolds a happy birthday and the team members clapped in the background.
— Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024
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