Sentence examples of "parachuting" in English

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Translations: all3 parachuter3
Culture is like a parachute: if you don't have it, you flop down. La culture, c'est comme un parachute : si tu n'en as pas, tu t'écrases.
After a minute of free fall he pulled the rip cord and out came the parachute. Après une minute de chute libre, il tira sur la sangle et le parachute se déploya.
In 1912, the Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt died jumping off the first floor of the Eiffel Tower while trying out his new invention, the parachute coat, which did not work... En 1912, le tailleur autrichien Franz Reichelt est mort en sautant du premier étage de la tour Eiffel alors qu'il voulait tester son invention, le manteau-parachute, qui n'a pas fonctionné...
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