Example sentences for: parachute

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

  • He plans to parachute from a plane again on his 80th birthday.

  • Para-sailing (soaring overhead in a parachute harness pulled by a speedboat) is also available in New Providence (Cable Beach and Paradise Island) and Grand Bahama (Lucaya), but make sure you’re fully insured before taking to the air — many policies exclude this popular activity.

  • What's more, if the owners (independent or corporate) of the Podunk Banner flinch from a story about contaminated groundwater or police brutality, the big media New York Times or 60 Minutes can parachute in and do the story without fear or favor.

  • Golden handshake is in but not golden parachute .

  • 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.


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