airdrop

Example Sentences

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“We have to perform the airdrop as a surprise, so people don’t gather below,” Phille said earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

"Even if they airdrop food, airdrop anything - we're completely exhausted."

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025

On Thursday, the Jordanian air force allowed a photographer for The New York Times on one of its planes to observe the airdrop of bundles of aid across northern Gaza.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2024

Early on Tuesday, the British government announced that it had carried out its first airdrop of food into Gaza.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024

The closest thing I’d had to human contact since the airdrop, the distant lights triggered a flood of emotion that caught me off guard.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer