How to Use airborne in a Sentence

airborne

adjective

• Once the plane was airborne I loosened my seat belt.
• Thousands of airborne troops parachuted behind enemy lines.
• The fourth video shows the drone airborne to the sound of cheering from the ground crew.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Alongside the airborne crafts were kites of all shapes and sizes.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
• Part of the issue, the CDC explains, is that measles is airborne.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
• But there remain risks even when the flight is, is airborne.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2022
• The truck became airborne, then overturned, and came to a rest in a creek on its top side.
  — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2023
• The car went airborne while crossing the tracks, police said, and ran off the roadway at a curve.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
• The storms are airborne rivers of water vapor pushed by wind.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2024
• The fatal flight was the first time the plane went airborne after the inspection, the report says.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2023
• Plane, true to its title, is at its best when airborne.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 11 Jan. 2023
• And the sheer amount of time spent airborne over whoops and jumps absolutely boggles the mind.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2023
• What’s more, the house is airborne; it will be lifted 50 feet above the New Mexico desert via a large crane.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024
• Hawthorne will be the first agency to test out the dedicated 911 drones, with plans to have a small fleet airborne by the end of this year.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• This helps stop the spread of the fungi, which becomes airborne as walls and flooring are removed.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
• The Buick then struck a curb, went airborne, struck the railroad overhead signal and then overturned.
  — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
• In addition, the Marburg virus is not an airborne virus.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• The sinewy forward kept tapping the little white ball to himself, off the wall, juggling it airborne.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• The helicopter that could be the airborne hero of any Bond movie is going to a private owner in Texas.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2022
• Stress might also be a culprit in a gassy airborne stomach.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
• Few riders were able to nail down the proper technique to keep from going airborne.
  — Liliana Webb and Layla McMurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 20 Aug. 2022
• The finale gave us a pretty thrilling cliffhanger: an airborne dragon duel, the killing of a young prince, avowals of all-out war.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 14 June 2024
• Once airborne, the spores make their way into the lungs and breathing passages of nearby humans.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
• Some were drained, some were discarded and some went airborne into a crowd more than ready to receive them.
  — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2023
• A ton of airborne carbon is about what an average U.S. car emits in three months of driving.
  — Steven Yoder, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
• Season 3 sort of started with this kind of rebirth that was a bit of a false positive in the sense of there’s a sense of Kendall being airborne.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 14 Aug. 2022
• The station fired Foster, who never returned to the airwaves while airborne again.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• So yeah, 6 feet is not a magic number for avoiding airborne pathogens.
  — NPR, 23 June 2024
• For the Glinda merchandise, Tazewell sought to capture an airborne feeling.
  — Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 3 Oct. 2024
• This could be through coughs, sneezes or barks that release airborne droplets and infect items like food or a water bowl, the American Kennel Club reports.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024