Example sentences for: parachute

How can you use “parachute” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A better way to achieve equality would be a redistribution of physical fitness in which everybody engages in sensible, moderate exercise, and nobody engages in BASE (an acronym for "building, antenna, span, earth"), which, according to Time, involves hurtling off a cliff or a bridge on a bicycle with a parachute on your back.

  • The article derides Bush's much publicized parachute jump.

  • Then--while still gunning the motorcycle down a logging road--he produces a parachute from out of nowhere and straps it on just as the bike sails out over the deepest gorge in the world.

  • Golden handshake is in but not golden parachute .

  • And when the Thai-language wrestles with new words for alien imports like ice hard water or parachute umbrella for supporting life, some might be amused at how downright literal Thai can be or impressed at how admirably sensible it so often is.


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