How to Use helicopter in a Sentence

helicopter

1 of 2 noun
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  • There were four people on the helicopter at the time of the crash.
    — Raja Razek, CNN, 20 June 2023
  • The 27-year-old was a pilot on the helicopter along with Capt. Jack Casey, 26, who was also killed in the crash.
    — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The drone will also likely be useful against helicopters, both on the ground and in the air.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Or, go by helicopter and get an aerial view of the many whales that frequent the area.
    — Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2023
  • And, Schreiber arrives in style, in a helicopter in the middle of a Jets practice.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Then there was Christie's use of a helicopter to go watch his son play baseball.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 June 2023
  • Air Force crews guard them using helicopters that can be traced back to the Vietnam War.
    — Tara Copp, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The medics soon arrived and treated him in an ambulance as the helicopter touched down.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Beneath them the water rippled from the helicopter blades.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Videos on social media showed a helicopter dropping water on the hot spot up the hill.
    — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • There were three helicopter flights on Monday and four planned for Tuesday.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The football game was cut short and a medical helicopter was dispatched to the high school, police said.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The hangars once housed military helicopters and blimps armed with machine guns and bombs.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Russian helicopters and drones swooped in and attacked the pileup.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Yeah, but grabbing her husband and jumping out of a helicopter mid-flight?
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
  • With roads to the airport blocked and time running out, Sharon scrambled to arrange for a helicopter to fly the family to the airport.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The Navy has said the boats fired on American helicopters coming to aid a Maersk cargo ship.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • From here they were shuttled to their starting point via helicopter.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
  • Military helicopters swoop above the track, with a soldier zip-lining down to deliver the French flag that will be waved to start the race.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 12 June 2023
  • Your donation earns you two seats on a helicopter tour.
    — Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The island is also a quick 10 minutes from South Beach via helicopter.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Recovery helicopters will get the first view of its rapid descent.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In the filing, the plaintiff claims she was invited to the private flight by Martz and was not aware the musician would also be on the helicopter.
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Liu was flown to a hospital via helicopter and died the following day.
    — Erica McClain, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
  • But in reality, Jacob and a friend had flown a helicopter to the wreckage site.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 May 2023
  • Three days later, a Navy helicopter finally sighted the remnants of the ship.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The couple also took a helicopter ride over the river and waterfall.
    — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 15 July 2023
  • That friend, a paramedic and pilot, would have been the helicopter pilot during Eastman's trip to New York City, the report said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Over the past few years, the U.S. has sold Israel heavy-lift helicopters, aerial-refueling tankers, naval guns and much more.
    — Daniel Nasaw, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The beat whirrs and whirls, sounding like wind buffeting through a helicopter’s rotors.
    — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
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helicopter

2 of 2 verb
  • The contact helicoptered me into the air and then down to the ice.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The mistimed kick helicoptered left and struck the upright.
    — Dan Loumena, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • In the next 50 years, a man may be able to helicopter right out of his backyard and onto the roof of his office building.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Both Milling and Nanook were helicoptered out and the husky was later returned to its owner in Girdwood.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2019
  • Some survivors and the bodies of victims were helicoptered out.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Helicopter in for the game, then helicopter out and everyone loves you.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The freshman capped the drive with his scramble, helicoptering off a defender into the end zone.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The lumber split just above his hands, and the barrel helicoptered into the high, protective netting behind home plate on the first base side.
    — Ben Walker, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Their parents must be a sort of Tiger Mom, helicoptering their way through their families’ days, right?
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The lumber shattered just above his hands, and the barrel helicoptered into the high, protective netting behind home plate on the first base side.
    — Ben Walker, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The 41-year-old actress and Elba were helicoptered to the peak of the Canadian Rockies every day while shooting the romantic thriller.
    — Yvonne Juris, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2017
  • There was even the time the American was helicoptered off a mountain after a body-battering crash during downhill training at the 2006 Turin Olympics.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
  • However, in the episode’s final moments, the show pulled the punch — and showed Grimes being rescued and helicoptered off to destinations unknown.
    — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2018
  • But in the zero gravity era, going to space will be no more dramatic than helicoptering out to an offshore oil rig.
    — Charles Fishman, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • But in the zero gravity era, going to space will be no more dramatic than helicoptering out to an offshore oil rig.
    — Charles Fishman, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
  • During Hurricane Katrina, Fats was helicoptered from his rooftop to safety and lost all the contents of his home.
    — Adam Weiner, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Nearly half a million concertgoers left the roads so clogged, musicians had to be helicoptered in.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The couple was helicoptered to safety and treated for exposure.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Two days of snowfall followed, and by Friday, snow was neck-deep and several avalanches had occurred, a veteran mountain guide who was helicoptered out of the area said.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2020
  • But helicoptering in to glean talking points differs greatly from composing one’s own system and game plans.
    — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The harbor unit has responded to everything from speed demons cruising the high seas to drunken ferry passengers to helicopter crashes.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Morrill was shortly whisked away by ambulance and then helicopter out of Virginia and to a hospital in Bristol, Tennessee.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2019
  • These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school, or who didn’t go to college and can’t provide much help with it.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Parents are hovering and helicoptering and snowplowing in ways that are so toxic for their children.
    — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 14 June 2019
  • Assuming the lava sticks around for a bit and doesn’t retreat back underground, visitation to the National Park will surely increase, as will helicopter fly-over tours.
    — Will McGough, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Before Jack can really rip into him, Nicky is helicoptered away from the scene, leaving the Mystery Woman completely inconsolable.
    — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Jan. 2019
  • In a common scenario, mountain guides exploit inexperienced trekkers by pressuring them to be helicoptered back to Kathmandu at the first minor signs of illness.
    — Kai Schultz, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Spinning sideways, the banana fooled Indianapolis returner Quan Bray in its regular-season debut, in Week 1, skidding at the 11 before helicoptering out of bounds at the 7.
    — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • This is where helicoptering and black mothering diverge.
    — Dasia Moore, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Zeta breached the levees protecting Grand Isle in three places and also deposited a shrimp boat on La. 1 heading toward the island, blocking access and forcing first responders to helicopter in to assess damage.
    — Bryn Stole, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020

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