Sentence examples for lz from inspiring English sources

LZ Granderson, a member of both the black and the gay journalists' groups and a journalist at ESPN and CNN, said N.A.B.J.'s refusal to rejoin Unity after the name change risked making the organization look "intolerant and maybe even a bit dated".

– LZ Just as Keitany looked like she was done, she found another gear and is hanging ahead of Deba, the hometown favorite, and Dado.

LZ I'm Liz Ford, and I'm deputy editor of the Guardian Global development section; and I was lucky to go to Uganda and speak to Wyclif.

The line is straight out of any number of war movies, spoken by the terrified grunt from Bakersfield or Pittsburgh as he cowers under gunfire in a hot LZ.

"Shouldering our rifles, bandoliers of ammunition and other kit, we gravitated towards the southern end of the sweep of meadowland which formed our LZ.

Then we dropped, hovered, settled down into purple lz [landing zone] smoke, dozens of children broke from their hootches to run in towards the focus of our landing, the pilot laughing and saying, 'Vietnam, man.

The most-successful operator of rigid airships was Ferdinand, count von Zeppelin, of Germany, who completed his first airship, the LZ-1, in 1900.

The initial flight (July 2, 1900) of the LZ-1 from a floating hangar on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Germany, was not entirely successful, but it had the effect of promoting the airship to the degree that public subscriptions and donations thereafter funded the count's work.

The finest of the zeppelins was the LZ-70; this craft was 220 metres (720 feet) long, was able to fly above 4,900 metres (16,000 feet), and had a range of 12,000 km (7,500 miles).

The LZ-70 was shot down late in the war, however, and large rigid (metal-framed) airships were never again employed as combat aircraft.

Since 1997 Zeppelin Luftshifftechnik, the direct descendant of the original Zeppelin company, has been testing the LZ-N07, a 75-metre semi-rigid design that can carry two tonnes of cargo, or 12 passengers.