NOUN
- an elongated tethered balloon or blimp with cables or net suspended from it to deter enemy planes that are flying low
How To Use barrage balloon In A Sentence
- The winch man was running out the cable, allowing the barrage balloon to rise.
- The winch man was running out the cable, allowing the barrage balloon to rise.
- I dreamed of someday flying in a Spad, firing tracers from my machine guns at German barrage balloons or zeppelins.
- Nearly 800 anti-aircraft guns were moved to the coast and 1,000 barrage balloons were erected.
- Through his window, Carrington could see a silver barrage balloon, rising slowly on its cable into the clear blue sky.
- Cider and Guinness had given him a barrage balloon for a stomach.
- And a man keeps a sense of normality by reading in a park next to an anti-aircraft barrage balloon. The Sun
- He saw the soldiers and the land-girls, the silver sausage shapes of the barrage balloons in the sky, the occasional flight of marauder or defender aeroplanes droning aloft.
- Through his window, Carrington could see a silver barrage balloon, rising slowly on its cable into the clear blue sky.
- And a man keeps a sense of normality by reading in a park next to an anti-aircraft barrage balloon. The Sun
