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Example sentences for "drome"

Lexicographically close words:
drollest; drolling; drolls; drolly; drom; dromedaries; dromedary; dromos; drone; droned
  1. I mean, that there really is a hidden drome down there.

  2. And then, as though by magic, the whole sky over the hidden drome at Raja became filled with twisting and turning man-made air chariots of war.

  3. At that instant he saw the string of Jap fighters that came darting out from the hidden drome tunnel just east of Raja.

  4. How could there possibly be a secret drome down there?

  5. The joke began to dawn on the four just after the tender had carefully cleared the first bend of the road from the 'drome and the driver began to open her up and let her rip.

  6. Engine hit, conked out, crashed her edge of the 'drome here," said Solly hurriedly.

  7. One bomb whistled and shrieked down and burst noisily a few hundred yards from the 'drome and others farther afield.

  8. As they straightened they opened out and dropped into their places, and the Flight swept circling round above the 'drome in correct and exactly-spaced formation.

  9. All that day the yesterday's performance was repeated, with the addition that parties had to be sent off in tenders to bring in machines that had made forced landings away from the 'drome and were unfit to fly home.

  10. The Night-Flier paid no heed to any of them, dropped to a bare three hundred feet, flattened, and went roaring straight along the line of machines standing on the 'drome below.

  11. Back at their 'drome they found the Squadron Commander beside them before they had well taxied to a standstill.

  12. They were gone before the first blink of light paled the gun-flashes in the sky, and they were barely gone before there came dropping into the 'drome the pilots who had gone off the night before to fly in new machines to replace the wastage.

  13. The whole 'drome was lit with the red glow, and into this and through the rolling smoke clouds that drifted from the fire machine after machine came swooping and circling.

  14. One turn round the 'drome they made, and the Flight was in perfect formation and sailing off to the east, climbing as it went.

  15. When they got Y221 back to the 'drome and overhauled her they found her wrenched a bit, but in a couple of days she was tautened up into trim and in the air again.

  16. It appears that two nights ago the famous air-liner Atlantis left the Plymouth sea-drome about nine in the evening.

  17. Connie was to leave the sea-drome at eight-thirty in that fine flying-liner Atlantis.

  18. In any case, it would be as well to, close the sea-drome in preparation for the May Flower's arrival.

  19. All approach to the sea-drome was barred, and though the Hoe was crowded with spectators, none of them could approach anywhere near to us.

  20. In thirty seconds my orders were given, and not a living soul would enter or leave Plymouth sea-drome without my permission.

  21. To swoop down to Plymouth sea-drome with Constance, the Pirate Ship and the recovered treasure!

  22. Beyond, stretched the largest sea-drome in Great Britain, a harbour within a harbour, surrounded by massive concrete walls.

  23. On the far side of the sea-drome was our Patrol Ship No.

  24. We finished dinner, however, in a happier mood, and then walked down to the sea-drome together.

  25. In the roughest weather, when even within the distant breakwater the Sound is turbulent, the sea-drome is calm as a duck-pond.

  26. He understood exactly, saluted, and hurried to the electric railway, which ran down like a chute into the sea-drome far below.

  27. Drome is traversed from east to west by numerous rivers of the Rhone basin, chief among which are the Isere in the north, the Drome in the centre and the Aygues in the south.

  28. To the north of the Drome lie the Vercors and the Royans, a region of forest-clad ridges running uniformly north and south.

  29. In the rearing of silkworms Drome ranks high in importance among French departments.

  30. That's why you chaps have been buzzing from drome to drome these last few weeks.

  31. I couldn't see anything wrong, but there's a big 'drome at Vitry and he signaled me that he was goin' down.

  32. He felt convinced that the 'drome he had located was a new base for the squadron he had just seen, for were they not coming up from the interior?

  33. Back over the 'drome he signaled with his Very light pistol for landing lights, his take-off having been too sudden to permit of thinking of ground flares.

  34. Do you remember passing over the French 'drome outside of Vitry?

  35. At two or three hundred feet he turned, came back across the 'drome and headed in the general direction of Paris, climbing steadily and maintaining the direction until to the watching ground crew he became lost to view.

  36. Daylight, he reasoned, would be certain to bring him in sight of planes from some group, operating on this front, and if he could locate a 'drome his problem would be near solution.

  37. But what about that 'drome I located at Fere-en-Tardenois?

  38. Nothing daunted, Buzz went bowling off in search of Yancey, and McGee crossed the 'drome to Cowan's headquarters.

  39. Military Intelligence had received word late the previous evening that an American Pursuit Squadron would on the following morning leave from a 'drome south of Epernay and proceed to a new base south of La Ferte sous Jouarre.

  40. When they reached Le Bourget they circled the 'drome once, noted the wind socks on the great hangars, and dropped as lightly to the field as two tardy, truant schoolboys seeking to gain entrance without attracting notice.

  41. Ever since he first touched his wheels to this 'drome he's been yellin' about his motor bein' cranky.

  42. This mystery led him next day to diverge from his way and ride across the fields to the ‘drome to make a few inquiries into the ways of night-fliers.

  43. They landed safe on their own ’drome ground half an hour after.

  44. In answer to questions, some of the pilots said that if they were in the place of the Huns and wanted to find the ‘drome in the dark, they would steer for the unusual-shaped clump of wood which lay behind the ’drome.

  45. Hun came over, and at the ’drome the waiting and expectant Guns and R.

  46. The drone of the first engine grew louder, passed through the barrage, and boomed on over the ’drome without missing a beat.

  47. The two machine-guns on the ’drome were trained and aimed in daylight to shower bullets exactly over the tip of the tongue of wood.

  48. Their hopes were fully satisfied, or anyhow the Squadron’s more than were, because the Huns made a regular mark of the ’drome and strafed it night after night.

  49. We want to question you about the possibility that Lee Harvey Oswald was at the Sports Drome Rifle Range at 8000 West Davis Street in Dallas, Tex.

  50. It was addressed to the Sports Drome Rifle Range and it could not be delivered there.

  51. The Commission has had reports that various people observed a gentleman whom they believed to be Lee Harvey Oswald at the Sports Drome Rifle Range at 8000 West Davis on various occasions.

  52. Mr. Price has testified that he saw Oswald out at the Sports Drome Rifle Range.

  53. Are you familiar with the Sports Drome gun range, Mr. Slack?

  54. The Commission has been advised that you and your father went out to the Sports Drome Gun Range on West Davis at about 8000 West Davis sometime in November, is that correct?

  55. I want to ask you today about the possibility that you saw Lee Harvey Oswald at the Sports Drome gun range sometime in the month of November 1963.

  56. The Commission is advised that sometime during November of 1963, you and your son, whose name I understand is Sterling Charles Wood, went to the Sports Drome Rifle Range, is that correct?

  57. You and your husband have been operating the Sports Drome Rifle Range since some time in October 1963; is that correct?

  58. It was addressed to the Sports Drome Rifle Range and could not be delivered at that address.

  59. Are you familiar with Sports Drome Rifle Range?

  60. In this attack, alone of all the corps engaged, the men of the Drome stood their ground when the English made their counter-attack; amid cries of "Sauve qui peut!

  61. After six months' drill under the hand of the ex-artilleryman, the volunteers of the Drome were able to hold their own on the parade ground with the best regiments of the line.

  62. He had known now for three days that at four o'clock the roof would open and the drome would be turned into a blast-pit and the rocket would shoot out through space to the moon.

  63. Then he found the big drome where they were building the rocket.

  64. On the drome of the Two Hundred and Third R.

  65. He licked his suddenly dry lips, swallowed hard a couple of times, and hurried with Freddy across the drome to the line of twenty-one Spitfires on the tarmac.

  66. They could follow along under the trees and circle around to the east end of the small drome where the Dornier was.

  67. Yet at the start mighty few aeroplanes could beat sixty miles an hour, and to-day I can show you plenty of planes right here in this 'drome which can do one hundred and twenty.


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