How to Use bush pilot in a Sentence

bush pilot

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• The author evokes her childhood in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and her exploits as a bush pilot.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2020
• This is the same immutable sky that Markham knew sleeping out as a bush pilot, and also as a girl in Njoro.
  — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
• There’s also a touch-and-go bush pilot demonstration where the plane lands right next to the riverboat.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2022
• And in Alaska, a bush pilot hops in his seaplane to hunt down samples of the colossus, known to some as an enormous 4,000-pound floating head.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2020
• Peter Gould also mentions that after the events of the finale, Jesse might have fled to New Zealand to become a bush pilot, which, sure, why not?
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 25 Jan. 2018
• There’s also a bush pilot demonstration and a visit to the Trail Breaker Kennel.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2021
• The Piper Super Cub is a nimble favorite of Alaska bush pilots who land on and take off from gravel bars and mountaintops.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2019
• Molly Mabray is a resourceful 10-year-old who lives in the fictional Alaska village of Qyah with her mom, a bush pilot, and her dad, a wilderness guide.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• Burnett spent some time as a carpenter in the Lower 48 before returning to Alaska as a bush pilot.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
• Suddenly, his pain vanishes, and Compie, a bush pilot, arrives to rescue him.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 19 May 2020
• In the past few years the town of Pedro Bay, which would have to consent to such a corridor, has decisively turned against the project, says Jerry Jacques, a bear-viewing company owner and bush pilot who was based in the town for many years.
  — Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
• In Botswana, Brent has covered bush pilots in the Okavango Delta, and indigenous bushmen communities.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• If the remaining bush pilots who have delivered outsiders to these sites for decades retire without others filling their roles, there may one day be no realistic way of reaching many of them.
  — Zach Montague, New York Times, 22 July 2019
• Building solid characters from mere scraps of information (Faye was once a bush pilot, Lito a musician), the two leads embrace a screenplay (by the director) filled with long silences and searching close-ups.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024