seaplane

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Recent Examples of seaplane Newton Cove is more remote, only accessible by seaplane or boat. Robert Annis, Outside, 5 Sep. 2025 The flight restrictions will also impact the adjacent Lake Hood Seaplane Base, the world's busiest seaplane base. Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025 Along with the surrounding shoals and waters, the islands comprise Dry Tortugas National Park: a park accessible only by boat or seaplane. Linnea Bailey, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2025 It's located in an isolated spot off the Saudi coast in Tabuk and is reached by seaplane. New Atlas, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for seaplane
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Noun
  • In addition to snakes, the area is home to 66 percent of Illinois‘ amphibians and over 90 percent of the state’s mammals.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Found nowhere else on the planet, this tiny amphibian is known for its unique method of parenting, with male Darwin’s frogs gestating their young in the vocal sac below their mouth.
    Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For the rest of her look, Beer layered a white button-down sweater under Cherish the Label’s vintage oversize classic leather bomber Jacket.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The bomber deployment comes ahead of a large-scale Japanese war game scheduled to take place across the country from October 20 to 31.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Their modest aircraft, a wooden biplane made of spruce and ash covered by cotton muslin, was open to the outside air.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Biplane Transfer with Optional Commentary by Director Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise—Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie discuss the challenges of filming the highly technical and extremely dangerous biplane transfer stunt at high altitudes.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public.
    Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 16 July 2019
Noun
  • Rare earths are key inputs in weapons platforms such as the F-35 warplane as well as consumer products like electric vehicles and smartphones.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • This refers to the 2015 incident in which a Turkish Air Force F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24M bomber which had violated its airspace for 17 seconds in the first time a NATO member had downed a Russian warplane since the Korean War.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The plasma clouds were likely first created by jets of material released by the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Hota explained.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Boeing’s business-jet division announced a new plan to turn commercial-passenger 747-8 airliners into the largest floating palaces in the sky.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Before becoming the 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush received training on the Avenger TBF/TBM torpedo bomber at NAS Ft. Lauderdale from June 16 to Aug. 16, 1943.
    Lauren Ferrer, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • Several hundred aircraft would assemble, including dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighter planes, such as the P38 Lightnings, F4F Wildcats, F6F Hellcats, F4U Corsairs and P-40 Warhawks.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • During that time, the company produced glider parts for the war effort.
    Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The glider is claimed to have the capability to conduct operations over greater distances and more diverse areas.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Seaplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seaplane. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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