parachute
Example Sentences
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"Your best view of where you may want to go or where you may want to avoid is while you're coming down in your parachute."
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
It also acquired parachute maker Pioneer Aerospace in 2023 and specialty RF filter firm Akoustis in 2025 after each of those companies filed for bankruptcy.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026
“We must parachute into Europe,” she wrote before setting out, “like a mother breaking into a burning house to rescue her children.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Astronauts can’t parachute to the surface, or climb down a rope ladder, or just beam themselves down from the Transporter Room.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026
Fortunately the vines here are strong and the spile and tube of medicine wrapped in the parachute are still secured to my belt.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
