How to Use zeppelin in a Sentence

zeppelin

noun

• One of the highlights of the film takes place in the German zeppelin airship.
  — Susan King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
• Many of his smaller works feature not only hot-air balloons, but zeppelins and airplanes too.
  — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• Dolan’s presence on the zeppelin had been kept a secret from his wife and mother to preserve the surprise.
  — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
• Just not as much fun as the guy who’s staying in his luxury zeppelin tethered above the 18th green.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2018
• 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
• And Nomad was illustrated with a screen of two giant zeppelin airships in a cloudy sky.
  — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2008
• At night, when the zeppelin reached the right spot in the sky, a telescope on the ground could begin to explore the neighborhood of a target star.
  — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2016
• The new zeppelin will have a rigid structure made of aluminum and carbon fiber and will operate like a helicopter rather than the ship-like blimp.
  — Sandy Mazza, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
• Rigid airships, such as zeppelins, consist of a light framework of aluminum-alloy girders that is covered with fabric.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
• Sources report that the airship resembles a zeppelin but refused to elaborate on the details.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2017
• People travel by helicopter, hot-air balloon and metal zeppelins.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• If this inner arrangement seems botanical, the exterior suggests a zeppelin as much as a seed.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• This was a time when zeppelins and other inflatable airships were being constructed, and places once beyond reach seemed attainable.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2019
• Why did zeppelins use hydrogen instead of helium, the American airship gas of choice?
  — Keith O’Brien, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• That way Dolan would be able to surprise his family by being home for the holiday — the ocean route would take several days longer than the two-day zeppelin trip.
  — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
• Visit Goodyear's website for more information about the company's zeppelins and blimps.
  — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Now scientists and others are starting to look at zeppelins as something more than hovering billboards like the Goodyear Blimp.
  — April White, Smithsonian, 22 Nov. 2019
• The concave surface would pick up the drone of airship engines before the human ear could, giving time for air and civil defense forces to prepare for the zeppelin's arrival.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
• Aren’t airplanes, helicopters, gliders, blimps, zeppelins, and rockets already doing a great job of moving people through the atmosphere?
  — New Atlas, 27 Apr. 2026
• The recording of that tragedy, and the ensuing sensational media coverage, ended the brief heyday of zeppelin travel.
  — Michael J. Socolow, Slate Magazine, 5 May 2017
• There are also historical differences between the airships that are popularly called zeppelins and blimps.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
• The new zeppelin - not yet named - is now being painted inside Goodyear's 101 year-old hangar at Wingfoot Lake in Suffield.
  — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Back in 1936, though, Close was just one of the two children on a zeppelin gondola largely filled with German businessmen.
  — John Marks, charlotteobserver, 10 May 2017
• Recent years have seen major advances in aerial technology, from the creation of autonomous flying taxis to the launch of helium zeppelins the length of a football field.
  — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 19 June 2026
• There was no skywriting, no zeppelin, no annunciatory angel; the press alone was responsible for staving off disaster.
  — Andrew Kahn, Slate Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
• Additional coils of wire around the spectrometer must precisely cancel Earth's magnetic field, or else the electrons will run into the zeppelin's wall.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2017
• The interior of the restaurant feels at once nautical, Old World, fantastical, and stagy, like a first-class dining room on a romance-novel zeppelin.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
• In Battlefield 1 that included a take on Lawrence of Arabia, a crawl through the muddy trenches of France, and a fight atop a crashing zeppelin.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 23 May 2018
• Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who grew up on the lake, invented the zeppelin and started building airships in Friedrichshafen in the late 1890s.
  — Diane Daniel, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
• The first zeppelin, the Luftschiff Zeppelin, or LZ, took to the air over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  — USA Today, 17 June 2026