How to Use helicopter in a Sentence

helicopter

1 of 2 noun

• There were four people on the helicopter at the time of the crash.
  — Raja Razek, CNN, 20 June 2023
• The 27-year-old was a pilot on the helicopter along with Capt. Jack Casey, 26, who was also killed in the crash.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2024
• The drone will also likely be useful against helicopters, both on the ground and in the air.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
• Or, go by helicopter and get an aerial view of the many whales that frequent the area.
  — Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2023
• And, Schreiber arrives in style, in a helicopter in the middle of a Jets practice.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• Then there was Christie's use of a helicopter to go watch his son play baseball.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 June 2023
• Air Force crews guard them using helicopters that can be traced back to the Vietnam War.
  — Tara Copp, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
• The medics soon arrived and treated him in an ambulance as the helicopter touched down.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• Beneath them the water rippled from the helicopter blades.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Videos on social media showed a helicopter dropping water on the hot spot up the hill.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• There were three helicopter flights on Monday and four planned for Tuesday.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• The football game was cut short and a medical helicopter was dispatched to the high school, police said.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• The hangars once housed military helicopters and blimps armed with machine guns and bombs.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• Russian helicopters and drones swooped in and attacked the pileup.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Yeah, but grabbing her husband and jumping out of a helicopter mid-flight?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
• With roads to the airport blocked and time running out, Sharon scrambled to arrange for a helicopter to fly the family to the airport.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
• The Navy has said the boats fired on American helicopters coming to aid a Maersk cargo ship.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• From here they were shuttled to their starting point via helicopter.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
• Military helicopters swoop above the track, with a soldier zip-lining down to deliver the French flag that will be waved to start the race.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 12 June 2023
• Your donation earns you two seats on a helicopter tour.
  — Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2023
• The island is also a quick 10 minutes from South Beach via helicopter.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2024
• Recovery helicopters will get the first view of its rapid descent.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• In the filing, the plaintiff claims she was invited to the private flight by Martz and was not aware the musician would also be on the helicopter.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• Liu was flown to a hospital via helicopter and died the following day.
  — Erica McClain, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
• But in reality, Jacob and a friend had flown a helicopter to the wreckage site.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 May 2023
• Three days later, a Navy helicopter finally sighted the remnants of the ship.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The couple also took a helicopter ride over the river and waterfall.
  — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 15 July 2023
• That friend, a paramedic and pilot, would have been the helicopter pilot during Eastman's trip to New York City, the report said.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Footage of the rescue shows the helicopter crew first honing in on the victim using the aircraft’s thermal imaging camera.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
• Abe was taken by medical helicopter to Nara Medical University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
  — TIME, 4 Apr. 2024

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helicopter

2 of 2 verb

• The contact helicoptered me into the air and then down to the ice.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• The mistimed kick helicoptered left and struck the upright.
  — Dan Loumena, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• In the next 50 years, a man may be able to helicopter right out of his backyard and onto the roof of his office building.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2022
• Both Milling and Nanook were helicoptered out and the husky was later returned to its owner in Girdwood.
  — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2019
• Some survivors and the bodies of victims were helicoptered out.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
• Helicopter in for the game, then helicopter out and everyone loves you.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 27 Nov. 2021
• The freshman capped the drive with his scramble, helicoptering off a defender into the end zone.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2019
• The lumber split just above his hands, and the barrel helicoptered into the high, protective netting behind home plate on the first base side.
  — Ben Walker, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Their parents must be a sort of Tiger Mom, helicoptering their way through their families’ days, right?
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• The lumber shattered just above his hands, and the barrel helicoptered into the high, protective netting behind home plate on the first base side.
  — Ben Walker, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The 41-year-old actress and Elba were helicoptered to the peak of the Canadian Rockies every day while shooting the romantic thriller.
  — Yvonne Juris, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2017
• There was even the time the American was helicoptered off a mountain after a body-battering crash during downhill training at the 2006 Turin Olympics.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
• However, in the episode’s final moments, the show pulled the punch — and showed Grimes being rescued and helicoptered off to destinations unknown.
  — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2018
• But in the zero gravity era, going to space will be no more dramatic than helicoptering out to an offshore oil rig.
  — Charles Fishman, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• But in the zero gravity era, going to space will be no more dramatic than helicoptering out to an offshore oil rig.
  — Charles Fishman, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
• During Hurricane Katrina, Fats was helicoptered from his rooftop to safety and lost all the contents of his home.
  — Adam Weiner, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
• Nearly half a million concertgoers left the roads so clogged, musicians had to be helicoptered in.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• The couple was helicoptered to safety and treated for exposure.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• Two days of snowfall followed, and by Friday, snow was neck-deep and several avalanches had occurred, a veteran mountain guide who was helicoptered out of the area said.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2020
• But helicoptering in to glean talking points differs greatly from composing one’s own system and game plans.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2018
• The harbor unit has responded to everything from speed demons cruising the high seas to drunken ferry passengers to helicopter crashes.
  — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
• Morrill was shortly whisked away by ambulance and then helicopter out of Virginia and to a hospital in Bristol, Tennessee.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2019
• These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school, or who didn’t go to college and can’t provide much help with it.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
• Parents are hovering and helicoptering and snowplowing in ways that are so toxic for their children.
  — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 14 June 2019
• Assuming the lava sticks around for a bit and doesn’t retreat back underground, visitation to the National Park will surely increase, as will helicopter fly-over tours.
  — Will McGough, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Before Jack can really rip into him, Nicky is helicoptered away from the scene, leaving the Mystery Woman completely inconsolable.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Jan. 2019
• In a common scenario, mountain guides exploit inexperienced trekkers by pressuring them to be helicoptered back to Kathmandu at the first minor signs of illness.
  — Kai Schultz, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
• Spinning sideways, the banana fooled Indianapolis returner Quan Bray in its regular-season debut, in Week 1, skidding at the 11 before helicoptering out of bounds at the 7.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• This is where helicoptering and black mothering diverge.
  — Dasia Moore, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
• Zeta breached the levees protecting Grand Isle in three places and also deposited a shrimp boat on La. 1 heading toward the island, blocking access and forcing first responders to helicopter in to assess damage.
  — Bryn Stole, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024