Blériot
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The sleek Blériot, wrote The Post, was a “real, live habitue of the aerial levels.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
He didn’t want to disappoint the Benning crowd, so his crew wheeled out the Blériot.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Grahame-White ordered a plane from France’s Louis Blériot — who in 1909 became the first person to fly across the English Channel — and even worked in the factory to familiarize himself with it.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Shortly before his death in 1910, just shy of his 90th birthday, he was able to telegraph his congratulations when Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel in a monoplane.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2017
They seemed to bend back at the tips, unlike a Blériot, with its straight spread of canvas.
From The Soul of the War by Gibbs, Philip
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