How to Use airborne in a Sentence

airborne

adjective
Definition of airbornenext
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  • Once the plane was airborne I loosened my seat belt.
  • Thousands of airborne troops parachuted behind enemy lines.
  • The fourth video shows the drone airborne to the sound of cheering from the ground crew.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The truck became airborne, then overturned, and came to a rest in a creek on its top side.
    — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The car went airborne while crossing the tracks, police said, and ran off the roadway at a curve.
    — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The storms are airborne rivers of water vapor pushed by wind.
    — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The fatal flight was the first time the plane went airborne after the inspection, the report says.
    — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And the sheer amount of time spent airborne over whoops and jumps absolutely boggles the mind.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The Buick then struck a curb, went airborne, struck the railroad overhead signal and then overturned.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
  • In addition, the Marburg virus is not an airborne virus.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The sinewy forward kept tapping the little white ball to himself, off the wall, juggling it airborne.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Stress might also be a culprit in a gassy airborne stomach.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Some were drained, some were discarded and some went airborne into a crowd more than ready to receive them.
    — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2023
  • The station fired Foster, who never returned to the airwaves while airborne again.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The briefly airborne car was eventually removed with a crane.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The officials also said the search for the small airborne object that was shot down over Lake Huron has stopped and nothing has been recovered.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The officials also said the search for the small airborne object that was shot down over Lake Huron has stopped, and nothing has been recovered.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • When, mere moments later, Liam Samuel Noone is pushed over that edge, airborne and pivoting, this is in fact his last thought.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Once airborne, the rotors can be repositioned so that the Osprey flies like a propeller plane.
    — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • After almost two weeks of waiting, the Friendship was airborne.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In other words, putting the Angry Kitten on a Reaper drone means that the jamming system can be airborne for a long time, as Reapers are long-endurance drones.
    — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
  • Video footage showed that at least one airborne weapon hit what appeared to be the headquarters, engulfing the building in billows of thick black smoke.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • While some eclipse chasers will be heading toward states in its main path, others are timing flights in order to view it while airborne.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The ministry said that the airborne drones were shot down and that electronic jamming caused the unmanned, semi-submersible vessels to go astray.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
  • Thankfully, no one was seriously injured from the airborne tire, but the red flag set up what was supposed to be a 7-lap dash to the finish.
    — Rob Peeters, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
  • The Russian position was marked with the blue flag of Moscow’s elite airborne units but the fabric looked almost translucent through the Ukrainian sniper’s scope.
    — Natalia Yermak David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • As a kid, I was fascinated with anything that went airborne.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Asbestos becomes a health hazard when the dust becomes airborne and is inhaled.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • In the game, survivors are forced to wear gas masks to protect themselves from the airborne fungal spores that can infect a person just as easily as a bite.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The first cloud chamber was devised by physicist Charles Thomas Rees Wilson in 1895 to reproduce the airborne puffs and study their behavior.
    — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2023

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