floatplane
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of floatplane
Example Sentences
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On Tuesday, just hours after the second flood of historic proportions, I took a ride in a de Havilland Beaver floatplane to tour over the glacier with my family.
From Slate • Aug. 9, 2024
Perfect Brett and Tiffany go in a floatplane and then Brett surprises Tiffany with framed photos he took of her.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2023
Luke and Rebecca Ludwig, a couple from Minnesota, were among the 10 people who died Sept. 4 in last Sunday’s floatplane crash off Whidbey Island.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2022
Megan Hilty has publicly broken her silence about the loved ones she lost in a floatplane crash Sunday afternoon in Washington state.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2022
This week his job was escorting a violent juvenile offender first from Minneapolis to Seattle, then to Ketchikan, Alaska, where they boarded a big silver floatplane to the Tlingit village of Drake.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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