seaplane

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Recent Examples of seaplane Until the jet age, seaplanes were major players in air transportation, with the first regular intercontinental airplane services taking off and landing on the water. New Atlas, 13 Feb. 2025 Seaborne Airlines, an affiliated seaplane carrier that flies between St. Croix and St. Thomas, will continue operating. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025 Take a scenic seaplane tour of the enormous Juneau Icefield. Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2025 Seaborne, which operates a seaplane service in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is also flying under court protection. David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for seaplane
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Noun
  • Thanks to the Terrain Management system and multiple four-wheel drive controls, however, the Ranger PHEV effortlessly swam like an amphibian.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • The cicadas also provide abundant high-protein food for many species of birds, small mammals, and some reptiles and amphibians.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • One of those bombers dropped two massive ordnance penetrators on a nuclear facility in Fordo at 2:10 a.m. local time, Caine said—the first of 14 bombs dropped across Iran.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • It was being dropped from high above the Earth by a B-2 Spirit bomber.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Reckoning has received a lot of attention for its stunts – Tom Cruise hanging off a biplane, for instance, and a burning parachute sequence.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 June 2025
  • 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, 16 June 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
  • Bombs and missiles launched from U.S. warplanes hit nuclear sites at Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz in Iran.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 23 June 2025
  • The Israeli military said its warplanes, guided by intelligence, hit command centers linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including the Basij headquarters and the Alborz Corps, which oversee internal security.
    Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Three — and then five — pyrotechnic jets resembling a peacock’s tail feathers issue from a box with two semicircular sides.
    Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
  • Rwanda also has been accused of exploiting eastern Congo's minerals, used in smartphones, advanced fighter jets and much more.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 June 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
  • While the other species are all considered skilled aerial travelers, biomechanical research suggests that the paradise flying snake is the fastest glider among them.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • Conservationists hope the greater glider livestream will continue revealing new information about these at-risk animals and encourage their protection.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025

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“Seaplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seaplane. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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