Explore Helicopter through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like chopper or eggbeater. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Helicopter in a sentence
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Helicopter meaning
- An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail to stabilize the aircraft.
- A powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
- The winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple.
Using Helicopter
- The main meaning on this page is: An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail to stabilize the aircraft. | A powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete. | The winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple.
- Useful related words include: chopper, whirlybird, eggbeater, heavier-than-air craft.
- In the example corpus, helicopter often appears in combinations such as: the helicopter, helicopter was, helicopter to.
Context around Helicopter
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Helicopter
- In this selection, "helicopter" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rescue, apache, attack, crash, pilot and flew stand out and add context to how "helicopter" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1985 a helicopter operated by, 67 creek helicopter oh 58, helicopter crash, helicopter pilot and military helicopter. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "helicopter" sits close to words such as restricted, crystal and dying, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with helicopter
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
According to its manufacturer Boeing, the Apache helicopter is the world’s most advanced attack helicopter. (16 words)
The rangers on the helicopter spotted three suspects and called for back-up from a second helicopter. (17 words)
The tragic accident took place when their helicopter collided with another helicopter near Gold Coast's Sea World on Monday. (20 words)
The R-4 was the world’s first large-scale mass-produced helicopter and the first helicopter used by the United States Army Air Forces, the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. (45 words)
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin said, Oamaru police were called by a Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust pilot in Oamaru after a man shone a high powered laser into the helicopter’s cockpit for four minutes at 10pm Monday. (39 words)
The helicopter moved left whilst also dropping, which the pilot tried to counter with collective and cyclic inputs but was unable to prevent the front of the left skid of the helicopter from contacting the ground. (36 words)
Could you also donate a helicopter pad, and a helicopter, and a helicopter pilot, and helicopter fuel so I can go see the sites? (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
Could you also donate a helicopter pad, and a helicopter, and a helicopter pilot, and helicopter fuel so I can go see the sites?
The helicopter ascended at a rate of 1,273 feet-per-minute -- more than double the rate the helicopter flew earlier that day at the same location, the helicopter's ADS-B data shows.
The helicopter flew to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, which has a Helicopter Landing Site (HLS) located in a secured area within one of its public car parks.
The rangers on the helicopter spotted three suspects and called for back-up from a second helicopter.
The tragic accident took place when their helicopter collided with another helicopter near Gold Coast's Sea World on Monday.
According to its manufacturer Boeing, the Apache helicopter is the world’s most advanced attack helicopter.
At one point, a Flight For Life helicopter landed on the football field as first responders hoisted a patient out of an ambulance and over to the helicopter.
Royal Navy pilot killed in helicopter crash named as tributes paid He was called a "shining light" by Colonel Mark Johnson, Commanding Officer of Commando Helicopter Force at Yeovilton.
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin said, Oamaru police were called by a Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust pilot in Oamaru after a man shone a high powered laser into the helicopter’s cockpit for four minutes at 10pm Monday.
The annual Westpac Recue Helicopter charity golf day at the Tamworth Golf Club was raising money for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service.
The helicopter moved left whilst also dropping, which the pilot tried to counter with collective and cyclic inputs but was unable to prevent the front of the left skid of the helicopter from contacting the ground.
The helicopter used appears to be a Bell helicopter purchased by the dethroned Shah of Iran Muhammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979 or earlier.
The R-4 was the world’s first large-scale mass-produced helicopter and the first helicopter used by the United States Army Air Forces, the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
The second helicopter pilot flew to the area and saw rotor-blade fragments and an oil sheen on the water surface, but did not see the rest of the helicopter or the pilot.
Back in 1985, a helicopter operated by Island Express collided with another helicopter from San Pedro after picking up passengers in Avalon, Catalina’s largest town.
Investigators collect what appears to be part of the helicopter rotor blade as they work at the hillside scene of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight other people.
NBA legend Kobe Bryant dies at 41 in a helicopter crashKobe Bryant, one of NBA's greatest players, died Sunday in helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, according a person with knowledge of situation.
She was trained on flying the TH-67 Creek helicopter, OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter, and became a qualified AH-64D Longbow Apache pilot.
The brother of the pilot whose helicopter fatally crashed simply said that Bryant and other passengers were aware of the risks of helicopter travel.
The drone collided with the helicopter’s fuselage and caused tremendous damage, forcing the helicopter to emergency land as a result.
Phrases with helicopter
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with helicopter
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the helicopter 42×
- helicopter was 13×
- helicopter to 11×
- helicopter crash 10×
- rescue helicopter 10×
- by helicopter 9×
- helicopter pilot 8×
- in helicopter 8×
- military helicopter 8×
- and helicopter 6×