How To Use Hovercraft In A Sentence
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Zip-wire 10, hovercraft 40, go-karting 10 for 10 minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hovercrafts or high-speed ice-breakers could replace the boats in the winter, says Krantz.
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Hovercraft can travel both on land and water.
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Hop onto a hovercraft or a car ferry and you are there within half an hour.
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A lone Japanese escort helicopter followed the hovercraft in, and buzzed overhead.
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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.
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It has a steady flight, often within a few centimetres of the water surface and is reminiscent of a small hovercraft.
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When it was launched in the 1950s, the hovercraft was hailed as a revolution in sea travel.
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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.
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The audience was entertained with presentations involving fish tanks, a remote controlled hovercraft, a bed of nails and beach balls.
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Some of the other things that he somehow ended up designing and building include an interactive dining table, a carbon-fiber electric guitar, hard-drive wind chimes, radio-controlled hovercrafts, nixie tube clocks, and magnetohydrodynamic-powered boats.
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Another ship, called TransSpar and designed by Canada's Extreme Ocean Innovation, has a huge, deep keel for stability, giving it the shape of a seahorse, while a third is an adaptation of a Norwegian Navy minesweeping hovercraft.
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Much of the ￡1 million spent annually on hovercraft research and development over recent years is also directly applicable to the AP1-88.
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Fifty years ago this summer, Sir Christopher Cockerell publicly demonstrated the hovercraft.
Boing Boing
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As he threw himself forward the fringe of a blast from the hovercraft caught his trail leg.
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Two hovercraft, two rescue helicopters and three lifeboats rushed to the scene fearing a repeat of the tragedy which earlier last year claimed the lives of 21 people.
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All that the rescue helicopters and a hovercraft could do was pick their bodies from the sea in the dark, landing them one by one on the beach.
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The film starts with a high speed hovercraft chase through a minefield in the demilitarised zone separating North and South Korea.
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The group had toyed with the idea of making a hovercraft.
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The hovercraft has always suffered from the fact that it is neither fish nor fowl.
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Just a hovercraft out of Dover that crossed behind us heading for France.
CORMORANT
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Though hovercrafts and high-speed jetfoils have crowded out ancient sampans and junks, fishing thrives and fish remains as significant an input in the Chinese culinary tradition as before.
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August 2nd, 2009 barney flies the hovercraft while cinnamon infiltrates the premier's staff ...
Barney flies the hovercraft while cinnamon infiltrates the premier's staff...
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Pipelines, aerial tramways, hovercraft, and other means of transport supplement the principal modes.
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Would it have not been more convenient and safer to capture one of the cross-Channel ferries from a French or English port, or the Hovercraft out of Boulogne or Calais?
Pressure Point
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The rubber skirts round the bottom of a hovercraft were destroyed.
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The inspiration was the hovercraft, a feature of which are the roof-mounted engines.
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Hovercrafters can swiftly clock up speeds of around 80 mph.
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As the name implies, it is a hovercraft type of vehicle with motorcycle steering and propulsion.
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These hovercraft can easily outpace most boats.
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We took a hovercraft across the English Channel.
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A million people visit this area every year, usually by airboat, which roars across the marsh like a tiny hovercraft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now people can cross the lake easily on / by a hovercraft.
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Unless you plan to herd us into an empty chook pen or the hold of the hovercraft.
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With a hovercraft on hand and a helicopter circling above it was very impressive stuff, but was it necessary to deploy this large array of resources?
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The rubber skirts round the bottom of a hovercraft were destroyed.
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They are giant surface-skimmers, huge hovercraft built on the Caspian Sea by the Russians.
KARA KUSH
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The new hovercraft, designed to be used on mud and sandbanks as well as shallow water, was unveiled at the RNLI lifeboat station in Morecambe, Lancashire.
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Now people can cross the lake easily on / by a hovercraft.
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The four had tried to swim to safety after being cut off by the rising tide but had regained the safety of the sandbank when the hovercraft arrived to lift them to safety on the shore at Red Bank.
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These hovercraft can easily outpace most boats.
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Rudders behind the propellers work in concert with the swivelling nozzles to steer the hovercraft.
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The corporation has prepared a detailed indication of running costs for the new hovercraft.
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Even back then, club members recognized the importance of having a second hovercraft on-call in the Lower Mainland.
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Mr Foster thought a hovercraft would be the perfect vehicle to boost tourism and navigate the mudflats of Southend when the tide is out.
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A crowd of some 200 locals gathered at the beach to watch the high-speed amphibious hovercraft speed across the water and then climb onto the beach, deflate, and unload its cargo.
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Hovercraft can travel both on land and water.
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Predictably, they were caught by the tide and the hovercraft found them in nearly two feet of water.
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Watch out for the Sea-Safari, high-speed boat trips around the bay, a hovercraft, and even a hot-air balloon!
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A lifeboat hovercraft was launched from Morecambe at 12.50 pm following reports that a number of people had been caught by the tide.
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In 1959, the first hovercraft was launched on the Isle of Wight.
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Apparently the pilot's reflexes left something to be desired and the hovercraft crashed side-on into a large rock, blossoming into a ball of flame.
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Diesel railbus, 7ft gauge and tank locos, pump trolley, sports hovercraft, campervan, motorbike, single-deck bus, trike, electric miniature railway.
The Sun
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Mr Clouter said three helicopters and a hovercraft then arrived on the scene, along with some two dozen police officers.
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Longley then set about the task of designing a hovercraft for Lake Chad, but by the time he had spent three years building it, a drought had dried up most of the lake.
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To engage the interest of a group of fourth formers, he suggested that they build a hovercraft from scratch to enter a national competition.
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Buying the hovercraft and Argos vehicles were the easy parts, the battle to keep funds coming in for running costs is increasingly difficult.
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A hovercraft rides on a cushion of air.
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The corporation has prepared a detailed indication of running costs for the new hovercraft.
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Strapping the skis on the roof, we boarded the hovercraft in Dover.
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Light aircraft, 60 helicopters, river boats, and hovercraft provided his mobility.
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Hovercraft can travel both on land and water.
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Associated Press Premier Margaret Thatcher, making a firm stand on the Isle of Wight with the British flag in the background, during her visit to the British Hovercraft Corporation Ltd., at East Cowes on June 8, 1983 in England.
Margaret Thatcher, Pioneering Politician
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Within a few seconds, the air cushion becomes powerful enough to lift the entire hovercraft, and suspend it a few inches above the ground.
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The plane is the fast but the hovercraft is more comfortable.
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Early versions of the hovertrain rested on a cushion of air, like a hovercraft that travels over sea or land, but later ones could levitate.
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As the name implies, it is a hovercraft type of vehicle with motorcycle steering and propulsion.
