sailplane
Use Sailplane in a sentence
noun
1.
a very light glider that can be lifted by an upward current of air.
verb (used without object)
2.
to soar in a sailplane.
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| —n | |
| a high-performance glider | |
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Sailplane
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Example sentences
He discovers how to make a sailplane which will enable him to fly.
Leave it to the sailplane pilots to know what to look for.
Flying close to a mountain ridge in a sailplane does not engender the same fears as walking close to the edge of that ridge.
But the sailplane experience was less useful than it might appear to have been.
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