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 | Rsims@al.com, 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

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