Examples of copter in a Sentence
copters from the local TV stations made the obligatory reports on the bumper-to-bumper traffic at the start of the holiday weekend
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Towel-waving involves an intricate flow of flips, curls, and twirls, each with its own name: helicopter, dirty copter, pizza, super8.
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Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Rescuers aboard the copter plucked the hiker to safety from a riverbank, the helicopter touching down in a clearing where, even after his ordeal, the hiker was able to walk from the craft under his own power.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2025
While still in the air, these copters would start up and fly away from the entry capsule, which would crash on the Martian surface as the autonomous aircraft make their own way down.
—David Szondy
august 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2025
Search: Boats, a copter and a postcard Within hours of the escape, investigators scoured the waters around Alcatraz.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
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Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Rescuers aboard the copter plucked the hiker to safety from a riverbank, the helicopter touching down in a clearing where, even after his ordeal, the hiker was able to walk from the craft under his own power.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2025
While still in the air, these copters would start up and fly away from the entry capsule, which would crash on the Martian surface as the autonomous aircraft make their own way down.
—David Szondy
august 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2025
Search: Boats, a copter and a postcard Within hours of the escape, investigators scoured the waters around Alcatraz.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
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“Copter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copter. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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copter
noun
cop·ter
ˈkäp-tər 
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