How to Use hovercraft in a Sentence

hovercraft

noun

• The hovercraft has been Riese’s labor of love for more than a decade.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• In that case, try one of the showcase events, which might ask you to race against a hovercraft or train.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018
• And our mission was to use our yellow cat hovercraft to find dry land and start a new life.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• Whether on horseback or in a hovercraft, a fool’s feet never touch the ground.
  — Garret Keizer, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• One of the vessels appears to be a hovercraft.
  — Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 7 Dec. 2025
• Like a hovercraft, the gas cushion makes the ice highly mobile.
  — Christopher Crockett, Scientific American, 19 June 2013
• Tourist guide Natalya owns the hovercraft.
  — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
• The result feels more like a hovercraft than a traditional boat.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• But most of us have never seen a hovercraft in real life, and the vehicles haven’t had a big impact on our world.
  — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• Trying to kill that animal wasn't the problem; the hovercraft was.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• Now McCartney is at work in his garage building a hovercraft.
  — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• The down-tempo track crawls, but like the hovercraft-Chevy in the track’s video, seems to float effortlessly.
  — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2019
• The group also deployed a hovercraft to Nashville and a K-9 search unit is en route.
  — Tyler Palmateer, The Tennessean, 20 Mar. 2024
• There wasn’t a player piano in sight during the premiere episode, only sleek high rises and hovercraft.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2020
• Despite all the hard thinking, hovercraft have yet to catch on and are still rarely used for Arctic travel and research.
  — Paul Bierman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2024
• But those swords are more like lightsabers, the knights ride hovercrafts instead of horses, and the walls are mounted with laser cannons rather than trebuchets.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 30 June 2023
• The organization has so far lent airboats and a hovercraft to Strain's case.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Instead of a hovercraft, crews had to use a sled, and safety teams were on standby due to unstable conditions.
  — Spencer Wilson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
• Comfort mode is perfect for around town, with its welcome delivery of hovercraft-like isolation from the road.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 5 June 2017
• Like Mario Kart, the game involves steering a hovercraft through whimsical race tracks.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• The park service bans hovercraft over concerns about noise and potential damage to wetlands and tundra.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2018
• The sensation was like gliding on a hovercraft above the Beethovenian waves.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• In addition, the shot clock, now the size of a small hovercraft placed on Curry’s back, was ticking down toward zero.
  — David Aldridge, The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024
• Switalski piloted the hovercraft while Howard approached the swan with a blanket on the ice.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2021
• As the guests disembarked, many ignored the light rain to pose for pictures with Sturgeon’s hovercraft, which was in the parking lot.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2019
• The final moments, captured in breathtaking detail by cameras below the hovercraft, show the rover landing in a cloud of dust.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Feb. 2021
• Apparently one of them was able to call 911 on a cell phone and the fire department was able to get its hovercraft out there and rescue them.
  — Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• At one point King Cove received millions of federal dollars to buy a fast hovercraft, and a road was built to a landing site near the refuge.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• On Thursday morning, sheriff's officials used a hovercraft to break the ice around the swan, then draped a blanket over its head and removed it from the lake.
  — Erin McGarry, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2022
• There will be Marines on board, and some combat vehicles could be in the hold of the ship, as well as hovercraft that launch from the rear of the vessel, Arnold said.
  — Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2018