How to Use dirigible in a Sentence

dirigible

1 of 2 adjective

• There is an urban legend that the building's tower and orb were once used as a port for a dirigible.
  — Janelle James, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2021
• The concept of the dirigible started as a joke that Sesshu was riffing off.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• The sky is punctuated by a hot-air balloon, a dirigible and a zooming biplane.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• On the way back, however, the dirigible had a mechanical problems and crashed onto the sea ice.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 24 June 2023
• The name Kanye West shall assign himself after surviving a dirigible crash.
  — David Kamp, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
• Wikipedia incorrectly lists the flight of the French army dirigible La France as the first roundtrip dirigible flight.
  — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• The Navy built an eight-acre dirigible hangar in Mountain View, still one of the largest freestanding structures ever erected.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
• The Navy’s dirigible hangar still looms over the Bay, but Google now rents the property from the government for the parking of private jets.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
• The 10 days of derring-do acrobatics and races by celebrity plane and dirigible pilots did far more than even Los Angeles boosters might have dreamed.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• Other inventions, which never quite succeeded, included a sailboat with an adjustable mast, a dirigible, a fiberglass ukulele and a solid-foam football, with grooves in the surface.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
• In August 1929, Angelenos swarmed the site to gawk at the Graf Zeppelin dirigible stopping by on its world tour.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• If Walsh and Piccard’s bathyscaphe was a dirigible, the sleek experimental vehicle being built for Welsh is a fighter jet.
  — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012
• Traveling in a failing dirigible, de Maistre visits Xavi, a contemporary girl who discovers that her own room offers hidden adventure.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
• The answer is to blow up small distinctions into dirigible-size differences, manufacture disagreements and go after rivals on attributes such as demeanor, character and temperament.
  — Columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• Stettheimer was bringing popular magazines and window displays and musical-comedy manners into an art that was bound to look frivolous but that was as purposefully light as a dirigible, permanently afloat.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• According to the company, dirigible travel will emit ninety per cent less carbon dioxide per passenger mile than a standard airplane—and, by 2030, an all-electric version may eliminate emissions entirely.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021

dirigible

2 of 2 noun

• All three types of airships are also called dirigibles, meaning that they can be steered, in contrast to hot-air balloons.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
• So, for a dirigible to work on Saturn, its entire interior would have to be a vacuum.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
• Known to love dirigibles, Brin would use the blimp, which could cost as much as $150 million, for personal travel, too.
  — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 28 May 2017
• But now that the transportation sector is looking for serious ways to cut carbon emissions, dirigibles are attempting to make a comeback.
  — Starre Vartan, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2020
• The staging involved everything from floating dirigibles to nearly 100 live sheep.
  — Anthony Tommasini, Zachary Woolfe, Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, David Allen and James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2016
• The clip, built entirely from unseen footage from the original shoot, opens with an alternate view of the singers inside a futuristic dirigible with the song’s title splashed in neon on the side.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2022
• Wingfoot Express dirigible took a joyride from Grant Park over the Loop, with catastrophic effects.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
• Gadgets abound but her main secret weapon is the dirigible that, perpetually hovering in the clouds, can be used for surveillance and the application of knockout drugs, as well as facilitating various abductions, thefts and escapes.
  — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• Americans also loved scenes from abroad, peering excitedly at Egyptian camels, Central American women pounding tortilla flour, dirigibles in flight, exploding volcanoes.
  — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• The latter kicked off from Rome’s Ciampino airport aboard the N-1 dirigible, which traversed more than 8,000 miles across continental Europe, the Arctic Sea and the Svalbard Islands to fly over the pole.
  — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• In 1933, the United States Navy built it as the West Coast base for the USS Macon, a massive dirigible measuring 785 ft (239 m) in length.
  — New Atlas, 3 Apr. 2026