Examples of balloonist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In 1912, a young meteorologist and champion balloonist named Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had once fit together but then drifted apart. — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020 At its base lies a large circular meadow protected from wind—a hot-air balloonist’s paradise. — Bill Newcott, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020 In 1859 balloonist John Wise traveled 809 miles in just under 20 hours. — Anthony Perry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020 Phlegm covered one end of the 118-foot-high block with wry, black-and-white portraits of early aviators and balloonists; HENSE plastered colorful, abstract forms on the other. — National Geographic, 11 May 2020 One of them was a Swiss hydronaut named Jacques Piccard, whose father, the hot-air balloonist Auguste Piccard, had designed it. — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020 Just in time for the holiday season, Amazon Studios has released The Aeronauts, a soaring historical adventure film about the perils faced by a Victorian scientist and a balloonist attempting to fly higher than anyone before them. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2019 The film, which cost $40 million to make, stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as 19th-century balloonists. — Jake Coyle, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2019 Amelia was actually inspired by several historical female aeronauts, most notably Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to find work as a professional balloonist when her balloonist husband, Jean-Pierre, died. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2019

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