Example Sentences

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The Indian Navy deployed a long-range maritime patrol aircraft to support the search and kept another aircraft with air-droppable life rafts on standby.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

Army’s website describes a Humvee as “a lightweight, highly mobile, high-performance, diesel-powered four-wheel drive, air-transportable and air-droppable family of tactical vehicles,” weighing up to 11,500 pounds and having maximum speeds of 70 mph.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2023

In recent years, the Army scrapped the aging but light Sheridan tank it once used, and canceled the air-droppable Advanced Gun System that was to have replaced it.

From Time Magazine Archive