Crossword-Solution: PARACHUTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parachute | n. | A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence. |
| Parachute | n. | A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with PARACHUTE (5)
The fifteen minutes had almost elapsed when there fluttered from the tiny monoplane a paper parachute.
The top of the buggy caught the air like a parachute or an umbrella filled with wind, and held them back so that they floated downward with a gentle motion that was not so very disagreeable to bear.
And then when he got over land agin and went to pull the cord that lets the parachute loose it wouldn't work at first.
Mary Bailey, aged 16, the daughter of an electrician, who is a pupil at the Hanson Secondary School, was in the school yard when she was suddenly lifted up into the air by a violent gust of wind which got under her clothes converting them into a sort of parachute.
The next minute a parachute shot out from the balloon; and hanging to it the form of a man could be seen.
Quotes with PARACHUTE (3)
A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.
I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of course. That is how I'm viewing my life right now. Once I find that loophole than I've reached my destination to success.
The Everlasting Staircase" Jeffrey McDaniel When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live, my first thought was: can't she postpone her exitfrom this planet for a week? I've got places to do, people to be. Then grief hit between the ribs, said disappear or reappear more fully. so I boardeda red eyeball and shot across America, hoping the nurses had enough quarters to keepthe jukebox of Grandma's heart playing. She grew uppoor in Appalachia. And while world war IIfuncti…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).