Sentence examples for barrage balloon from inspiring English sources

A barrage balloon?

Every wrong turning we took, we expected a huge white barrage balloon to head us off.

I cannot even say I was deflated since, clearly, I had become a human barrage balloon.

Below them, the spindly branches of the Socotran fig wriggled from a trunk that resembled a deflated barrage balloon.

There is an astonishing visual set piece in a vast barrage balloon hangar being used as an emergency hospital.

A monstrous, semi-deflated barrage balloon called 'The Death of Leviathan' has been on view at the Grand Palais in Paris.

The barrage balloons used in England during World War II, however, were filled with hydrogen.

/ Barrage balloons hang like ripened fruit / In a sky just grown silvery with dawn".

And they may be overtaken in mid-development by less expensive ideas, such as using barrage balloons instead of satellites.

One night, the BBC asked whether there might be barrage balloons -- devices for foiling low-flying planes -- at Dresden.

After one battle, there were two riot shields and six bulletproof-vested dead people peacefully hanging like barrage balloons in the air in front of a temple.