by air

idiom

: by flying in airplanes
travel by air

Examples of by air in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Scattering from the air Florida doesn’t prohibit the scattering of ashes by air, but the Federal Aviation Administration has guidelines prohibiting the dropping of anything from a plane that could injure people below. Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2024 The Air Carrier Access Act requires airlines to provide assistance to people with disabilities when traveling by air, including with loading and stowing of assistive devices. The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2024 The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is suffering what appears to be its most severe bleaching event; about a third of the reefs surveyed by air showed prevalence of very high or extreme bleaching, and at least three quarters showed some bleaching. Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024 By 2040, that number could reach 14 percent—almost as much carbon as that emitted by air, land, and sea transport combined. IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2024 As limited supplies of food, medicine and other necessities have entered Gaza through land crossings, the United States and other nations have resorted to delivering a small amount of supplies by air and by sea. Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 Second, Russia may have waited until Ukraine’s power plants were less protected by air defenses, an increasingly scarce resource after two years of war, and with aid from the United States stalled for months by Congress. Christian Edwards, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024 There was no immediate word from authorities on whether the explosions were an incoming attack or interceptions by air defense. Josef Federman and Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2024 Hamas carried out an unprecedented surprise terror attack from Gaza into southern Israel by air, land and sea on Oct. 7, 2023, killing more than 1,200 people and taking 253 others hostage, according to Israeli authorities. Marwa Mouaki, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2024

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“By air.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20air. Accessed 4 May. 2024.

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