Blériot
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
He demonstrated both to crowds, but it was the Blériot that wowed onlookers.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2022
The sleek Blériot, wrote The Post, was a “real, live habitue of the aerial levels.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2022
The arrival of M. Blériot suggests most horribly to me how far behind we must be in all matters of ingenuity, device, and mechanical contrivance.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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