How do you use Blimps in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Blimps meaning
plural of Blimp
Using Blimps
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Blimp
- In the example corpus, blimps often appears in combinations such as: blimps are, blimps were, the blimps.
Context around Blimps
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 5 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blimps
- In this selection, "blimps" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, white, watch, balloons, may, take and skywriting stand out and add context to how "blimps" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include air using blimps and scouting and blimps are the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blimps" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blimps
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, but beware of white blimps. (11 words)
Non-rigid airships main Non-rigid airships are often called "Blimps". (11 words)
British blimps were used for scouting, mine clearance, and convoy patrol duties. (12 words)
The station was renamed NAS Moffett Field, and between 1933 and 1947, U.S. Navy blimps were based there. citation A number of technology firms had set up shop in the area around Moffett Field to serve the Navy. (39 words)
Outdoor media Outdoor media is a form of mass media which comprises billboards, signs, placards placed inside and outside of commercial buildings/objects like shops/buses, flying billboards (signs in tow of airplanes), blimps, skywriting, AR Advertising. (37 words)
As the civilian crew was armed with a rifle, many thought this made the ship a privateer, and that she and sister commercial blimps were operated under letter of marque until the Navy took over operation. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
A new dawn for blimps may be emerging thanks to billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who aims to turn these retired sky-giants into cargo vessels.
Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, but beware of white blimps.
He lived across from the Flushing Airport at the Mitchell Gardens Apartments, where he and his friend Alan Gross liked to watch blimps take off and land.
In an interview last night with The Sun, Trump said: “I guess when they put out blimps to make me feel unwelcome, there’s no reason for me to go to London.
Aerodynamic lift requires relative motion of the fluid which distinguishes it from aerostatic lift or buoyancy lift as used by balloons, blimps, and dirigibles.
Apart from the greater payload, their main advantages compared to blimps are higher speed and excellent maneuverability.
A position further west was unnecessary, as that area of the North Sea could be patrolled by air using blimps and scouting aircraft.
As the civilian crew was armed with a rifle, many thought this made the ship a privateer, and that she and sister commercial blimps were operated under letter of marque until the Navy took over operation.
Blimps are the most commonly built airships because they are relatively easy to build and easy to transport once deflated.
Blimps are used for advertising and as TV camera platforms at major sporting events.
British blimps were used for scouting, mine clearance, and convoy patrol duties.
K-class blimps of USN Blimp Squadron ZP-14 conducted antisubmarine warfare operations at the Strait of Gibraltar in 1944-45.
Most, but not all, of the American Goodyear airships have been blimps.
Non-rigid airships main Non-rigid airships are often called "Blimps".
Of the over 70,000 ships in convoys protected by blimps, only one was sunk by a submarine while under blimp escort.
One was sunk and several probably damaged by bombs dropped by the blimps.
Outdoor media Outdoor media is a form of mass media which comprises billboards, signs, placards placed inside and outside of commercial buildings/objects like shops/buses, flying billboards (signs in tow of airplanes), blimps, skywriting, AR Advertising.
The station was renamed NAS Moffett Field, and between 1933 and 1947, U.S. Navy blimps were based there. citation A number of technology firms had set up shop in the area around Moffett Field to serve the Navy.
This allows the Jovian "blimps" to have a society older than the currently-observed age of the universe.
Though larger than common blimps, the Neue Technologie (New Technology) zeppelins are much smaller than their giant ancestors and not actually Zeppelin-types in the classical sense.
Common combinations with blimps
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- blimps are 3×
- blimps were 3×
- the blimps 2×
- blimps to 2×
- blimps and 2×