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: an airship that maintains its form by pressure from contained gas
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Blimp
: colonel blimp
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The colors pop all the brighter, and the moments when Kiki flies overhead are extra dazzling; the climactic blimp sequence particularly benefits from the extra scale.
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
Held up by what is essentially a helium blimp, the machine reportedly generated 385 kilowatts of electricity from 2,000 meters (more than 6,500 feet) above the city of Yibin in China’s province of Sichuan, according to a recent Euronews report.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
That could be a spaceship flying over an alien planet, a blimp over a European city set in the 1950s drawing from a photo, or an tapir running through far reaches of the Amazon rainforest.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2026
Fire up the blimp and get Chalamet that Oscar.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
Held up by what is essentially a helium blimp, the machine reportedly generated 385 kilowatts of electricity from 2,000 meters (more than 6,500 feet) above the city of Yibin in China’s province of Sichuan, according to a recent Euronews report.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
That could be a spaceship flying over an alien planet, a blimp over a European city set in the 1950s drawing from a photo, or an tapir running through far reaches of the Amazon rainforest.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2026
Fire up the blimp and get Chalamet that Oscar.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for blimp
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blimp
noun
: an airship filled with gas like a balloon
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