Sentence examples for balloon set from inspiring English sources

The novel skitters over oceans of trouble like a balloon set free and carried off by the wind.

On Tuesday, he broke the unofficial flight duration record of 10 days 3 hours alone in a balloon, set last year by another American, Kevin Uliassi.

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David G. Simons, whose ascent more than 19 miles above the Earth in an aluminum capsule suspended from a helium balloon set an altitude record in 1957 and helped put the United States on the road to manned space flight, died April 5 at his home in Covington, Ga.

Mr. Blount said Mr. Fossett might still attempt to break his own record of traveling 10,361 miles in a balloon set last January, when he was forced to land in a mustard field in India because he ran out of fuel.

In 1863, the photographer Nadar, famous for his panoramic pictures of Paris taken from a hot-air balloon, set up the Society for the Encouragement of Aerial Locomotion by Means of Machines Heavier than Air, which boasted Jules Verne among its members (the name of the hero in Verne's From the Earth to the Moon is an anagram of Nadar).

He was soon nodding out, his eyeballs rising in his head like two balloons set adrift.

They surpassed the distance record of 5,209 miles (8,383 km) for gas balloons set on the only previous manned trans-Pacific flight, in 1981.

The first of three balloons set to be used in the trial entered Sri Lankan airspace on Monday after it was launched from South America, the Sri Lankan government's communications technology chief Muhunthan Canagey told AFP.

And in New Hampshire, Melanie Bergerson collected paper messages to her oldest friend and put them inside a balloon, then set it free to touch the sky.

A framed canvas version of Banksy's Girl with Balloon was set to be auctioned at Sothebys in London.