dirigible

How to use dirigible in a sentence

• Other inventions, which never quite succeeded, included a sailboat with an adjustable mast, a dirigible, a fiberglass ukulele and a solid-foam football, with grooves in the surface.

  Tom Morey, inventor of wave-riding Boogie Board, dies at 86 | Matt Schudel | October 17, 2021 | Washington Post

• If people die in the service of something that seems less noble, the space market as a whole could dry up as fast as the dirigible business did following the Hindenburg disaster.

  Four Civilian Astronauts. Three Days in Orbit. One Giant Leap. Meet the Inspiration4 Crew | Jeffrey Kluger | August 10, 2021 | Time

• The United States Naval Observatory even sent a radio receiver aloft on a dirigible to pick up a potential Martian message, with a cryptographer on hand in case translations were needed.

  How Radio Astronomy Reveals the Universe | Emily Levesque | April 13, 2021 | Quanta Magazine

• His only regret seemed to be that he, too, could not have a dirigible balloon and a countess—on ten francs a week!

  The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith

• For in the matter of mines the Boodah had all the advantages of a shore, and as to dirigible torpedoes more than all.

  The Lord of the Sea | M. P. Shiel