airship
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of airship
Example Sentences
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Unlike some anonymous Polymarket traders, though, the omen named for the doomed German airship couldn’t have known bombs were about to fall on Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
The indicator is named after the German passenger airship that was involved in a historic disaster in 1937.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026
By contrast, when Franglen composed the music for the Wind Traders - a nomadic clan of salesmen, who travel by airship - he could let his imagination run wild.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
Umberto Nobile, his Italian engineer, decided to win accolades for Mussolini in 1928 by attempting the feat but wound up facing disaster when his airship, Italia, crashed and prompted a high-profile international rescue mission.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2024
Standing under the airship, his feet bare in the grass, he was transfixed.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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