How to Use zeppelin in a Sentence

zeppelin

noun

• One of the highlights of the film takes place in the German zeppelin airship.
  — Susan King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
• At night, when the zeppelin reached the right spot in the sky, a telescope on the ground could begin to explore the neighborhood of a target star.
  — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2016
• Just not as much fun as the guy who’s staying in his luxury zeppelin tethered above the 18th green.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2018
• The new zeppelin - not yet named - is now being painted inside Goodyear's 101 year-old hangar at Wingfoot Lake in Suffield.
  — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• The new zeppelin will have a rigid structure made of aluminum and carbon fiber and will operate like a helicopter rather than the ship-like blimp.
  — Sandy Mazza, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
• The age of huge, ocean-crossing zeppelins came to an end in 1937, when the Hindenburg — the largest craft of its type ever built — erupted in flames while landing in New Jersey.
  — NBC News, 19 Aug. 2019
• In Battlefield 1 that included a take on Lawrence of Arabia, a crawl through the muddy trenches of France, and a fight atop a crashing zeppelin.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 23 May 2018
• Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who grew up on the lake, invented the zeppelin and started building airships in Friedrichshafen in the late 1890s.
  — Diane Daniel, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
• And Nomad was illustrated with a screen of two giant zeppelin airships in a cloudy sky.
  — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2008
• Many of his smaller works feature not only hot-air balloons, but zeppelins and airplanes too.
  — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• Back in 1936, though, Close was just one of the two children on a zeppelin gondola largely filled with German businessmen.
  — John Marks, charlotteobserver, 10 May 2017
• For Londoners, the threat began in January 1915, when the Germans sent zeppelins loaded with bombs across the Channel.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2018
• Sources report that the airship resembles a zeppelin but refused to elaborate on the details.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2017
• The concave surface would pick up the drone of airship engines before the human ear could, giving time for air and civil defense forces to prepare for the zeppelin's arrival.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
• Now scientists and others are starting to look at zeppelins as something more than hovering billboards like the Goodyear Blimp.
  — April White, Smithsonian, 22 Nov. 2019
• The expensive production involves a live tiger, an exploding zeppelin and a crowd of bussed-in city down-and-outs posing as a lynch mob atop a New Jersey cliffside.
  — Alexander C. Kafka, Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• This game fits the Indiana Jones and The Mummy mold with hidden dinosaurs, massive zeppelin fleets and heroes quietly battling villains in the unexplored places of the earth.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• In other words: looming stock market blowups resembling the infamous German zeppelin that crashed in New Jersey in 1937.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 25 June 2021
• Visit Goodyear's website for more information about the company's zeppelins and blimps.
  — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Why did zeppelins use hydrogen instead of helium, the American airship gas of choice?
  — Keith O’Brien, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• The recording of that tragedy, and the ensuing sensational media coverage, ended the brief heyday of zeppelin travel.
  — Michael J. Socolow, Slate Magazine, 5 May 2017
• This was a time when zeppelins and other inflatable airships were being constructed, and places once beyond reach seemed attainable.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2019
• Additional coils of wire around the spectrometer must precisely cancel Earth's magnetic field, or else the electrons will run into the zeppelin's wall.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2017
• People travel by helicopter, hot-air balloon and metal zeppelins.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• The silvery vacuum chamber resembles a zeppelin, the vaguely Art Deco lines of the welds between its stainless steel panels looking at once futuristic and old-fashioned.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2017
• There was no skywriting, no zeppelin, no annunciatory angel; the press alone was responsible for staving off disaster.
  — Andrew Kahn, Slate Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017

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