How To Use Dirigible In A Sentence
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Committees, for example, investigated numerous reports of black German dirigibles floating over the mountains of western Montana spying, apparently, on the state's sheep and cattle herds.
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The dirigible came down at a cargo depot at the south end of town, and Shevek set off into the streets of the biggest city in the world.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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I only saw one show at G2 Gallery, of oil and acrylic paintings by Jack Balas in which flying machines such as dirigibles were juxtaposed with clock faces on which the numbers had been replaced by letters.
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I'd always been fascinated by those giant silver dirigibles, having seen the Graf Zeppelin cruising over Los Angeles and once getting a ride in the little old Goodyear ‘Volunteer’ blimp NCBA in 1936.
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Collectively titled ‘Airships,’ all of the sculptures assume the general shape of a dirigible.
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He studied the dirigibles through a pair of those really amazing computerized binoculars that you see in movies.
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Drinking lifted his mood, made him feel like an old-fashioned dirigible, floating over everything.
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But all the hot air served was to point up the hyper-inflation football elite's smug self-importance and, at the same time, demonstrate what a blimpish dirigible of bluster FIFA's chief Sepp Blatter truly is.
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The six cast members are not idle at all, but leap around the stage transforming suitcases into runways, mini-bars and bathroom cabinets, turning shopping baskets into flamingoes and balloons into dirigibles.
The Vanishing Horizon
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Their society is technologically advanced, and vast dirigibles called aëro: cruisers carry diplomatic missions to other citadels; yet a core of unscientific superstition still persists.
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The Latin dirigere means “to direct,” and a balloon capable of being directed by a pilot was dubbed a dirigible in 1885.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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In 1908 the English novelist H. G. Wells could imagine an armada of German dirigibles crossing the Atlantic to devastate New York City.
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The mighty dirigibles in the paintings are lumbering by comparison.
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Nathalie Gray 10:19 pm: I LOVE the idea of armoured dirigibles.
Transcript: Steampunk Romance « Coyote Con
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Although it is fairly common, in late spring, in Berkshire, to see dirigibles swooshing gently across the early evening sky, it still remains a moment to lift the soul.
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Later, Lewis guns loaded with incendiary bullets and mounted on the famous Sopwith Camel biplanes, helped bring down hydrogen-filled German Zeppelin dirigibles that had been terrorizing English cities.
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Within the bureau and the fleet, Moffett concentrated on the development of patrol and scouting seaplanes and dirigibles, airplane technology and logistics, aircraft carriers, and naval air stations.
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‘The beautiful birds of the air’ that thrilled the crowds each day were dirigibles flown by Ray Knabenshue and Lincoln Beachey.
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Now the duo, who also organise workshops at schools explaining the science behind their venture, is perfecting the design of larger dirigibles which could also be used by surveyors and architects on the outside of buildings.
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My neighbors and my community have lobbied our elected officials, written countless letters to the editor, and done everything short of flying dirigibles over our houses to divert the planes and what have we gotten in return?
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Santos Dumont is truly a hero in his own right for his work first with dirigibles, then his development and seemingly first-ever successful flight in an airplane.
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When he opened his eyes the dirigible was making another turn, less precipitous than before and — he hadn’t realized, but now saw through ragged gaps in the fog — at a lower altitude, some two hundred feet above what looked like a low fennish grassland, with scarcely a single tree in sight.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
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Sept. 24, 1852: A new invention called a dirigible creeps through the air from Paris to Trappe, France, taking three hours to travel 17 miles.
We'll Be Circling For Awhile
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And the style of the dirigible is only limited to the imagination!
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Eight teams piloted their dirigibles (a task significantly more difficult than it may seem), while a crowd of spectators cheered them on.
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The first of the great long-distance passenger dirigibles, the Graf Zeppelin, went into service in 1928.
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The US Navy lost interest after two enormous dirigibles, equipped with unique little biplane fighters that hung on hooks below them, went down at sea with the loss of all hands.
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I have to admit a secret love for the word dirigible here, too, which Buckell uses almost immediately in the story.
Tides from the New Worlds: Aerophilia « A Working Title
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One of helium's better-known, but less commercially important, applications is in lighter-than-air craft, such as dirigibles, and in weather and research balloons.
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It contained some illustrations of what a city in the year 2000 would look like - giant skyscrapers separated by 20 lane highways, dozens of dirigibles and hundreds of airplanes flying between the buildings.
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Planners had hoped to build the airship at the world's largest hangar, which was erected by the CargoLifter corporation 25 miles south of Berlin to house freight dirigibles.
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Zeppelin starting building the new dirigibles, which are about one-third the length of the Hindenburg, in 1996, but the sale to the Nippon Airship Corporation was its first commercial deal.
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It chronicled the efforts of a group of visionaries - or cranks, take your pick - to bring back lighter than air flight, i.e., dirigibles.
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Thanks to Kevin and Dug they flee the dirigible and escape Muntz's pack of vicious dogs, led by Alpha, but Kevin is injured.
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A reporter named Tor Pleiades is traveling aboard a dirigible headed for a port near a major political conference (involving an otherwise irrelevant alien artifact that may of may not represent first contact).
REVIEW: Jim Baen's Universe #11
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That is NOT a dirigible, that is a balloon - dirigibles are ridged, like zeppelins.
This Just In: (One) Less is (One) More
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An airship is any lighter-than-air craft, including blimps, dirigibles and zeppelins.
USATODAY.com - Rare air above the Super Bowl
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A dirigible is something magical," said Jérôme Giacomoni, who was 25 when he founded Aerophile with a friend.
Boing Boing
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PS Due to that flash animation we saw back in college, every time I hear the word dirigible, I hear the words, That’s lovely Mark.
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