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Parachute in sentence

62 examples of Parachute in a sentence

Richard Kornfeld: There is this window of opportunity within which we can deploy the parachute.
EB: If you fire the 'chute too early, the parachute itself could fail.
BC: In the first 15 seconds after we deploy the parachute, we'll decelerate from 900 miles an hour to a relatively slow 250 miles an hour.
EB: Now the spacecraft actually has to decide when it's going to get rid of its parachute.
You saw in the video a parachute breaking.
That would be a bad day, you know, if that happened, so we have to test, because we are deploying this parachute at supersonic speeds.
To give you an idea of the size, you know, of that parachute relative to the people standing there.
This artist's impression turned into reality when a parachute landed on Titan, Saturn's giant moon.
I wanted it to go out of sight and then I wanted this little parachute to come back with the frog in it.
100 people parachute onto an island in a last-man-standing competition.
We have to open a parachute just seconds before, I would say, impact.
A parachute jump from the very edge of space.
That's the prototype of the parachute.
A parachute opens up to slow it down.
Lots of climbing footage later there is a description of the parachute device intended to slow Miuras' speed on the steep slope.
Well--AND HERE COMES THE SPOILER--what happens, see, after a large crew of people manage to help him get near the top--and a life is lost in the bargain--he gets on his skis, manages to make it down a very very short way, at which point his PARACHUTE OPENS...and that's that.
He was meant to die from jumping without a parachute, but somehow he survived, and now he is seeing and loving June in the flesh.
I'm still trying to find out what color my parachute is!
The duo depart on a highly dangerous mission (apparently involving a "Satan bug")with the minimal of briefing, exchange wisecracks as they descend into France by parachute, and link up with several gypsies, including a redundant girl.(Oh
In that attack, British and U.S. forces moved north into Occupied Holland, both by land and air drop, and this tale begins with a small British parachute unit being diverted under orders to a remote location behind German lines.
For some reason when they parachute from the Hercules in the beginning and hit water it changes from day to night in under 30 seconds and some how they have rubber dingies with huge boat engines that someone had to have had in they're pocket and blew up, because is isn't visible that anyone had any packages when the dove out from the plane.
Red Dawn starts like any other day in a small Colorado town, however the normal tranquillity is soon shattered when Russian soldiers parachute out of the sky & start killing everyone.
People trying to fly with wings strapped to their arms, flying cars, failed parachute experiments, cooking utensils, and much much more.
However, I'll explain a little more of the basic plot: Two total morons parachute onto a Pacific island inhabited by a very, very strange tribe.
But as I saw it I got more and more frustrated - where were the people on the cover and where were the jets and parachute people?
I personally take it as an insult to the cap badge of the parachute regiment that this rubbish was allowed to be filmed under there name and can't believe certain actors that have worked in cult classics such as reservoir dogs would have ever considered working on such a project.
The catalyst for what came to be known as “Barricades Week” was an interview published in the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung with the parachute general Jacques Massu, in which he said that part of the army regretted having called de Gaulle back to power, did not understand his policy, and was disappointed that he had become “a man of the left.”
Some bank bosses will retire in shame, but with huge payments to ease their pain – such as the $55 million golden parachute handed to Bank of America’s Ken Lewis, with his, and the £25 million pension bestowed on Royal Bank of Scotland’s Fred Godwin.
That increase would enable Treasury mandarins to maintain their latitude in setting fiscal policy, while making it unnecessary to streamline special-account budget financing for gargantuan public corporations, into which retiring bureaucrats parachute for lucrative jobs.
In 1966 the secret police made me an offer they thought I couldn't refuse: if I collaborated, they would drop me by parachute over England and arrange for me to study at Oxford.
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