Word of the Day

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

It's the first day of October, and the words just keep on coming'! Give us a few sentences using the word of the day, post it in the comments.

Dirigible

[dir-ə-jə-bəl]Part of speech: adjective

Origin: latin, late 16th century

• Steerable
• Capable of being controlled or directed

Examples of Dirigible in a sentence

• Sure, your new aircraft invention is fast, but it's not dirigible; you can't steer it in the direction you want to travel.
• Shauna piloted the dirigible blimp away from the building's spire, narrowly avoiding disaster.

Illya struggled with the gondola, it was not in the least a dirigible craft.

Comments

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Something was wrong, Illya could feel it. Then Napoleon pushed him into cover and pointed up into the clouds. There, electric motors driving almost silent propellers and their colouring blending into the clouds, a fleet of dirigibles, no doubt on a bombing raid on the factories down the hill.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Great imagery!