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Example sentences for "airborne"

Lexicographically close words:
ainsy; aint; ainz; air; airboat; aircar; aircars; aircraft; airdrome; aire
  1. When the ship's airborne and out of reach of help, they'll break out their guns and take her.

  2. We've been airborne less than twelve hours.

  3. Frank Fogarty's voice said: "SAC has been airborne in total strength for half an hour, General.

  4. UPI)--The airborne town of Superior began to drift east across Ohio late today.

  5. To begin with, we're going to be airborne by 2300 hours, which a check of your watches will inform you is less than an hour away.

  6. Lieutenant Manny Jackson was pilot, while the airborne tactical officer was Lieutenant James Palmer II and the sensor operator was Lieutenant Andrew McLeod.

  7. He plunged for cover just as the first airborne shock wave ripped Odyssey II's linen sail loose from its lines.

  8. I'll have everybody airborne in fifteen minutes.

  9. Plans were made for the 3d and 4th Airborne Raiding Regiments to descend from Luzon on the Burauen airfields.

  10. In anticipation of the landing of Japanese paratroopers, General Krueger had requested General MacArthur to release elements of the 38th Division for employment against the enemy airborne troops.

  11. During the XXIV Corps phase, the 11th Airborne Division encountered an enemy force well dug in on the southern slopes of Mt.

  12. In the area he had his headquarters guard and a part of the 4th Airborne Raiding Regiment, in addition to a field artillery battalion, an engineering company, and a transportation company.

  13. Both are translations of Japanese documents giving plans for the airborne attack.

  14. I am General Swing of the 11th Airborne Division.

  15. The airborne landing at Cape Gloucester remained in the plan, however, even though Rupertus had warned that bad weather could delay the drop and jeopardize the Marine battalions already fighting ashore.

  16. Pollock, operations officer of the 1st Marine Division, advised MacArthur of the opposition of the Marine leaders to a complex scheme of maneuver involving Army airborne troops.

  17. All possible types of airborne research equipment were traced during similar flights in the hope that some special equipment not normally carried in aircraft would be found to have caused the jump in radiation.

  18. In a minute or two the F-84 was airborne and the controller was working him toward the light.

  19. Once again there was some delay, but by midnight two F- 94's from New Castle County AFB were airborne and headed south.

  20. By this time one remaining F-86 had been alerted and was airborne toward Long Beach.

  21. Returning Japanese aircrews claimed to have set fire to all of the aircraft on the ground, and reported sighting only three airborne American planes.

  22. From Edward's report on the airborne conference, Bishop-Colonel Bradford ought to be willing to help get Church approval for Enforcement to formalize the informal group marriages it was rumored they had in some of the more remote areas.

  23. She should be airborne by now, landing any minute.

  24. To her surprise, fifteen minutes later she was airborne and well on her way to the convent.

  25. Cortin turned, not really surprised to see Sis and the rest of those who'd been at the airborne conference.

  26. In this position the tympanum could receive airborne sounds whether the animal were entirely on land or lying nearly submerged with only the upper part of its head exposed.

  27. What should a small-unit commander do if his men thought they had been contaminated by airborne disease germs distributed by enemy bacteriological warfare planes?

  28. The gross circulation of these airborne papers reached in some cases up into the millions.

  29. The airborne loudspeaker was the object of experimentation, but the bulk of loudspeaker broadcasts were made from vehicle mounts, such as tanks, and from emplacements.

  30. The dwindling of the great army accelerated, airborne replacements dependent on such erratic transport failed to fill the gaps.

  31. As for floating islands, they would be no more immune to airborne seeds than stationary ones.

  32. The natives of Wellington V feed on airborne plankton, which is carried by the vibrations of sound or speech.

  33. This was a large drumlike construction with a small hole in its side through which airborne plankton could enter.

  34. Did you also suspect that the only reason this airborne landing was made on these shores was to capture you?

  35. Just looking at him, Zen knew why he had been selected to lead the airborne landing in America.

  36. It was utterly impossible that any nation on earth could have built such an enormous airborne machine.

  37. Although I thought it improbable that the location of our uranium deposits would be of interest to space men, a Washington official told me it would be relatively simple to detect the ore areas with airborne instruments.

  38. Fine debris and ash in the eruptive plume are scattered over a wide area in airborne clouds.

  39. Aerosol - a collection of airborne particles dispersed in a gas, smoke, or fog.

  40. We were airborne from Fort Worth at 11:20 in the morning.

  41. New courses were opened to Negroes in the Adjutant General's School, the airborne section of the (p.

  42. Nine of the units were attached to general reserve divisions, including the 2d Armored, 2d Infantry, and 82d Airborne Division.

  43. He mentioned the assignment of a black parachute battalion to the 82d Airborne Division as a good place to begin.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airborne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.