How to Use bush pilot in a Sentence

bush pilot

noun
  • There’s also a touch-and-go bush pilot demonstration where the plane lands right next to the riverboat.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2022
  • With the incessant storms that year, bush pilots said red lights would be easier to see than the current blue ones.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • This is the same immutable sky that Markham knew sleeping out as a bush pilot, and also as a girl in Njoro.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
  • The author evokes her childhood in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and her exploits as a bush pilot.
    — National Geographic, 15 May 2020
  • Suddenly, his pain vanishes, and Compie, a bush pilot, arrives to rescue him.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 19 May 2020
  • There’s also a bush pilot demonstration and a visit to the Trail Breaker Kennel.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2021
  • So to be told there were two more hours in a horrifyingly small Cessna and there wouldn’t even be much to see aside from the occasional side-eye at my handsome bush pilot?
    — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, the creek's orange color was what led a bush pilot to report the likelihood of valuable minerals there in the 1960s.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Duke Marolf, a 38-year-old marine welder and bush pilot in Seward, Alaska, also heard the Yeti tales.
    — John Clarke, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • And in Alaska, a bush pilot hops in his seaplane to hunt down samples of the colossus, known to some as an enormous 4,000-pound floating head.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Burnett spent some time as a carpenter in the Lower 48 before returning to Alaska as a bush pilot.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The Piper Super Cub is a nimble favorite of Alaska bush pilots who land on and take off from gravel bars and mountaintops.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2019
  • If the remaining bush pilots who have delivered outsiders to these sites for decades retire without others filling their roles, there may one day be no realistic way of reaching many of them.
    — Zach Montague, New York Times, 22 July 2019
  • But never underestimate an Arctic bush pilot.
    — Maggie Shipstead, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Peter Gould also mentions that after the events of the finale, Jesse might have fled to New Zealand to become a bush pilot, which, sure, why not?
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Molly Mabray is a resourceful 10-year-old who lives in the fictional Alaska village of Qyah with her mom, a bush pilot, and her dad, a wilderness guide.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Joshua Seagrave, 46, moved to Palmer with his partner, Jen, in January to start a new career as a bush pilot, friends and family said last month.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2022
  • In Botswana, Brent has covered bush pilots in the Okavango Delta, and indigenous bushmen communities.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Inspired by post-war bush pilots in Northern Canada, this bomber jacket nods to the durability, warmth, and flexibility those pilots relied on to work the runways in freezing weather.
    — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025
  • In Alaska, bush pilots often brave cruel November weather to carry ballots from the vastness of America's largest state, with some arriving after polls close.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • Building solid characters from mere scraps of information (Faye was once a bush pilot, Lito a musician), the two leads embrace a screenplay (by the director) filled with long silences and searching close-ups.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2022
  • In the past few years the town of Pedro Bay, which would have to consent to such a corridor, has decisively turned against the project, says Jerry Jacques, a bear-viewing company owner and bush pilot who was based in the town for many years.
    — Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020

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