How to Use hang glider in a Sentence

hang glider

noun

• Lay out a blanket on the grass and watch as hang gliders and paragliders soar over the jagged bluffs and ocean more than 300 feet below.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• The tallest peak rises 400 feet above piercing blue Lake Michigan—high enough for a hang glider to take off.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2022
• From the main parking lot, walk a short distance toward the ocean bluffs to the viewing deck and launch platform for hang gliders.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• An accomplished hang glider, Nairz also hoped to soar off the South Col.
  — Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online, 15 Sep. 2017
• The distance from South Texas to the Canadian border is far - and quite further if the trip is being made on a hang glider.
  — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 21 June 2019
• Buchanan suffered a spinal injury in 1981 while landing a hang glider in bad weather.
  — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 26 June 2018
• They’ve even been known to harass the occasional human in a hang glider.
  — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• Seacliff, at the bottom of Aptos’s steep bluffs, has a far busier vibe than Sunset, with a snack shop right on the beach and hang gliders swooping overhead.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• This is also home to Torrey Pines Gliderport, where hang gliders and paragliders launch from a seaside perch.
  — Keli Dailey, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
• Two examples were uncovered in the Argentinian province of Mendoza, the biggest of which had a wingspan of roughly 30 feet — about the size of a modern hang glider.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
• Holding the entire assemblage aloft in the graying Vienna morning was a 30-foot pair of collapsible hang glider wings.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• The inventor first operated the hang glider's predecessor in 1891, just five years before his death.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
• Videos uploaded by attendees showed the sky above them suddenly dotted with militants on hang gliders.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2023
• Climb to new heights, then activate a hang glider to reach an otherwise inaccessible cliffside.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
• In 1987, the Israeli army was similarly caught off guard when two Palestinian guerrillas tried to fly giant red-and-white hang gliders some three miles across the country’s northern border with Lebanon, Time magazine reported.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• The publication noted that police received a call around 5 p.m. local time regarding a midair collision that involved a tandem paraglider and a single-person hang glider.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
• Palestinian guerrillas were trying to attack a country protected by one of the most powerful militaries in the world — with hang gliders that were scarcely more than kites retrofitted with propellers and engines the size of a lawn mower’s.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• Hamas militants broke through the fences surrounding Gaza on Saturday morning, attacking Israeli soil by land, sea and air, using mechanized hang gliders and motorbikes to storm communities caught completely unaware.
  — Guy Davies, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024