Parachuted in a sentence

A new CEO has been parachuted in to run the embattled consultancy firm PwC Australia, which is offloading its money-making government consultancy business for $1.

Given the situation Howe was parachuted into at Newcastle - the relegation-threatened Magpies had not even won a game at the time - that was crucial.

Jacob also lied to an FAA aviation safety inspector when he said the airplane’s engine had quit and, because he could not identify any safe landing options, he had parachuted out of the plane,” according to federal prosecutors.

On the first day cameras were rolling for “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One,” Cruise drove a motorcycle off an actual 4,000-foot Norwegian cliff and then parachuted down.

Seventy-five paratroopers also parachuted into the event in an unprecedented aerial display.

The pilot parachuted safely into a North Charleston neighborhood, but the F-35 Lightning II jet was still unaccounted for and the aircraft's tracker is not working for unknown reasons.

Too many were “behaving as if they have been parachuted in to save the day” and No 10 was “always at war with someone”.

John Swinney, parachuted back into senior office as Mr Yousaf’s successor, could do no more than avoid further slippage in his party’s position.

Just days before, 55 men of his new detachment had parachuted into the desert behind enemy lines to sneak up on German and Italian airfields on the North African coast and blow them to smithereens.

Peretz Rosenberg, a radio operator, was parachuted into Montenegro with the first British mission to the headquarters of Josip Broz Tito, the leader of Yugoslavia.

She also said she would reform the parliamentary candidate selection process which she said led to candidates being “imposed upon local associations, parachuted down because they were the chosen favourite”.

And from above, piccolo-shrill, the skylark in ascendance, singing his heart out, who rose until he was a black dot in a vibrant sky, then parachuted down.

Twins Jess and Eve have parachuted into under strict instructions to cruelly wrench two of the boys from their doting partners.

Another ex-Labour MP Luciana Berger could be parachuted into a north London seat, Finchley and Golders Green.

The 25-year-old scored a match-saving 59 after being parachuted into the second Test at Lord’s, topscored in the first innings at Headingley with 74 and was strong again in the second dig, going into day three unbeaten on 53.

Varthaman ejected from his burning jet and parachuted down to a crowd of 'spirited' locals who descended him on him with fury when he asked them where he was.

Cole parachuted, and he and other Raiders were helped to safety by Chinese partisans.

Through the years of working for CNN, she has covered practically all the military conflicts that took place at that time and even parachuted into the very heart of the conflict to create an awesome report.

Gagarin parachuted to the ground separately from his capsule after ejecting at convert altitude.

He parachuted into Cambridgeshire on 29 June 1944 and went to London.