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UK
/hˈɒvəkɹˌɑːft/
]
[ US /ˈhəvɝˌkɹæft/ ]
[ US /ˈhəvɝˌkɹæft/ ]
NOUN
- a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines
How To Use hovercraft In A Sentence
- Zip-wire 10, hovercraft 40, go-karting 10 for 10 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
- Hovercrafts or high-speed ice-breakers could replace the boats in the winter, says Krantz.
- Hovercraft can travel both on land and water.
- Hop onto a hovercraft or a car ferry and you are there within half an hour.
- A lone Japanese escort helicopter followed the hovercraft in, and buzzed overhead.
- Specialist police search teams joined uniformed officers, police divers, dog handlers, volunteers, coastguards and a Royal National Lifeboat Institution hovercraft in the hunt for the child.
- It has a steady flight, often within a few centimetres of the water surface and is reminiscent of a small hovercraft.
- When it was launched in the 1950s, the hovercraft was hailed as a revolution in sea travel.
- They launched the inshore boat and hovercraft to rescue the un-named man with scores of day-trippers, enjoying the sun and seaside, looking on.
- The audience was entertained with presentations involving fish tanks, a remote controlled hovercraft, a bed of nails and beach balls.