Lighter-than-air Sentence Examples

For centuries, humans have explored the vast oceans of the world and discovered faraway lands and mysterious sea creatures (probably whales covered in kelp). Even if you don’t plan to hoist sails or batten down hatches any time soon, it doesn’t hurt to learn some commonly used nautical terms, acronyms, and abbreviations to impress your friends and maybe even glide those glassy seas yourself.

Z, pronounced "zee" or "zed" depending on where you're from, is one of the language's rarest letters. Z words are necessarily unusual, because this particular holdover from Greek just doesn't drop in on English very often.