How to Use blimp in a Sentence

blimp

noun
  • Aerostats, airships, and blimps aren’t new.
    Tracy Staedter, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Apr. 2018
  • So the blimp took a shot and there was traffic on the bridge.
    Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Instead, the blimp had touched down on a beach about a mile away.
    Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Most human-sized beings couldn’t float without a blimp, of course.
    WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The stamps include a blimp, a ping pong ball and paddle, the movie's tagline and logo.
    Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Are blimps and airships making a comeback?
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The ultimate night of slime and orange blimps is almost here!
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The blimp will be trailing a banner, which will be printed with a ten-digit code.
    Talib Babb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Quillin said he’d been intrigued by blimps ever since the World’s Fair.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
  • Slime is right up there with Nick’s orange blimp as the show’s signature.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2022
  • At least half a dozen people on Twitter asked if the match was being shot from a blimp.
    Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Then a blimp appeared, and their excitement spilled forth in hugs, shouts and laughter.
    David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The drone looks like a miniature blimp surrounded by a ring of propellers.
    Noah Daly updated May 28, Idaho Statesman, 28 May 2026
  • The blimp has flown over multiple cities in which the president has appeared.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
  • Fire up the blimp and get Chalamet that Oscar.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • So what's the difference between a blimp and other kinds of airship?
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Then, like a blimp full of lead, Universal Genève came crashing down.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The blimp’s schedule for the Cleveland area kicks off Monday.
    Robin Goist, cleveland, 12 June 2020
  • The West Coast blimp has been taking to the skies since July 1.
    oregonlive, 7 July 2022
  • Developers in the room got to see live feeds from Glass-wearing parachutists who jumped from a blimp.
    Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2012
  • In the grand field of the next presidential campaign, l’affair Fuentes might not even be a blimp.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Nov. 2022
  • These days, Goodyear has four blimps in its fleet, including one that flies full-time in Europe.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Built during World War II, the blimp hangar has long stood idle and empty.
    Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 8 June 2024
  • Think of it as a high-tech blimp that's on a mission to bring the internet to places that have been left in the digital dark ages.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • But the point of it was is that our Bat Team did everything in its power to get that blimp out of the city.
    Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • In the black-and-white world, for instance, there is a blimp in the background that has a Hydra logo on its front.
    Carson Burton, Variety, 26 May 2022
  • The blimp crashed just two years later in the Pacific Ocean off Big Sur.
    Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Pathfinder 1 is a rigid airship, not technically a blimp.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Airships of various types predate both by a few decades, but zeppelins, or at least rigid airships by that name, came before blimps.
    Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
  • The actor also pitched the idea of a blimp to promote the film, which releases on Christmas Day.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025

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