How to Use paraglider in a Sentence

paraglider

noun

• The test saw a paraglider drop twice from a dozen miles high in the Earth’s stratosphere.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Jan. 2023
• Hang gliders came along in the 1970s, then paragliders.
  — Christopher Reynolds, latimes.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• Some items fell off the market walls following the impact of the crash, though the paraglider did not fall through the canopy.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 29 June 2023
• There was one person on board the plane and one person using the paraglider, the statement said.
  — Kay Jones and Tina Burnside, CNN, 22 Dec. 2021
• One of the paragliders that militants used to cross the border lay abandoned near a house.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• 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 agency’s helicopter, the Eagle, caught up with the paraglider about 500 feet in the air and sounded its siren, the report said.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• First there is a kind of joy and pride at just the image of people escaping this open-air prison of Gaza on paragliders.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• A paraglider was injured Wednesday in a crash in Castle Rock.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 17 May 2017
• Big Blue has seen me through some epic times, from big walls in Zion to first ascents in Yosemite to my first 100-kilometer flight in my paraglider.
  — Cedar Wright, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2018
• Then, fighters break through the border fence and use paragliders and speedboats to attack Israel by land, air and sea.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
• Units arrived on scene in the area of Deer Island and found one single engine paraglider in Lake Beauclair.
  — Jerry Fallstrom, orlandosentinel.com, 29 July 2019
• State heroes rescue paraglider from tree 70-feet off the ground in north Alabama.
  — Bob Sims | [e-mail], al, 10 Mar. 2020
• For paraglider enthusiasts, that quiet is a big part of the appeal.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
• Witnesses said the paraglider had been riding air currents along the coast, but lost lift and fell into the ocean, according to ABC 7 News.
  — Sharon Noguchi, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2017
• One clip, taken from the grand opening of a Scheels in Chandler, Arizona, in 2023, showed a paraglider dropping into the store’s parking lot.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 29 Mar. 2024
• A paraglider who had been circling for a few minutes suddenly descended to the ring.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2017
• But Spencer said Hamas didn’t just pull the paragliders from shelves at an outdoor store and suspected that the group may have been trained and supplied by a sponsor outside Gaza.
  — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• The paraglider was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, the release said.
  — Jon Murray, The Denver Post, 13 June 2020
• Officials are searching a section of the Missouri River for a paraglider who has been missing for over a week.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• The cliffs, some more than 300 feet straight up, star in car commercials and TV shows, the edge-of-seat finales of action movies and, in real life, serve as the perfect takeoff point for paragliders.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• 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
• That includes graphic footage as well as old footage of paragliders that is unrelated to the current attack.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2023
• But his paraglider sleigh got caught in some power lines, suspending the man for an hour before firefighters safely lowered him to the ground.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• This video is the earliest image of paragliders from during the attack to have been geolocated by CNN.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• Farther north, rough surf hampered the rescue on Saturday of a paraglider who fell into the ocean in Pacifica.
  — Annie Sciacca, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2017
• This stunning book offers a bird's-eye view of a changing Earth—each image taken by Steinmetz on a paraglider or by a camera attached to a drone.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2020
• Speaking of air travel, the man who crashed Rick Ross’s recent car show by flying into the rapper’s property on a paraglider said the stunt almost cost him his life.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
• Some Hamas fighters used paragliders to enter Israel by flying over the barrier fences.
  — Anat Peled, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023
• Among the peaks that are already home to the world’s longest zipline, adrenaline-lovers will soon be able to launch themselves into the blue beneath the canopy of a paraglider with the new Jais Wings experience.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024