How to Use aeroplane in a Sentence

aeroplane

noun

• Added to this are rapid-fire guns and a constant lookout from the ship and from aeroplane scouts.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• That people get on aeroplanes at all is a matter of trust.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2019
• But an aeroplane is simply an aviong, from the Portuguese avião rather than the German Flugzeug.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• On the sixteenth day of August, O'Brien was in a fleet of British aeroplanes that set forth to repel an attack.
  — Kitty Conley, Post-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2017
• The Spirit of the Lord kept butting in, sending dreams in which he was saved from crashing aeroplanes or warned of coming damnation.
  — The Economist, 21 May 2020
• That keeps the contents safe in aeroplane holds and on delivery lorries.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2020
• One shows Kais Saied floating above the Tunis skyline surrounded by a heart drawn in the sky by an aeroplane.
  — 1843, 18 Oct. 2019
• Helping him is a staff of ten full-time aeroplane builders, assisted by a group of volunteers.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• Firms with the most to lose were the worst hit: the share price for Boeing, an aeroplane-maker and a big exporter to China, fell by nearly 5% on the news before regaining ground.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• Intensive farms soak up scarce water and fly their produce around the world in aeroplanes that spew out carbon dioxide.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Yet the problem of the aeroplane is inherently complex.
  — Victor Lougheed, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2020
• Only 3% of Indians have ever been on an aeroplane; only one in 45 owns a car or lorry.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• So the average flyer takes eight return flights and aeroplanes rack up seven trillion air miles each year.
  — Keith Baker, Quartz, 20 Aug. 2019
• Electric aeroplanes Most electric plane designs are grounded on the drawing board, but there are some flight-ready aircraft.
  — Keith Baker, Quartz, 20 Aug. 2019
• The actual time aloft in the third and crowning test that demonstrated his theory that an aeroplane can compete with the sea-bird, was one minute and tweenty-one seconds.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
• Last month Jack and 49 others boarded a transport aeroplane and parachuted onto an island.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• His opponent in the coming election, Moussa Mustafa Moussa, chose an aeroplane.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Since the vortex shape and position change with altitude and temperature, as well as the velocity and weight of the leading aeroplane, so does the location of the sweet spot.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• Boeing has around 5,000 orders for the troubled aeroplane, which Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, reckons would account for a third of the company’s revenues over the next five years.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• For its occupants, the aeroplane constitutes the entire universe.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• In the days leading up to Lebaran the country’s cities normally disgorge their residents, who cram onto buses, ferries and aeroplanes, laden with gifts and new clothes, on their way home for the festivities.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2020
• Chris Adamson remembers being sent out to local hardware shops to find brooms of various bristle strengths, and asked to track down a specific kind of elastic used to power the propeller of a model aeroplane.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2020
• Admiral Davidson described how once-obscure rocks controlled by China now bristle with radar arrays and electronic warfare kit and are studded with aeroplane hangars and bunkers.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• Vincenzo Montella was a diminutive Italian winger who nailed a celebration early in his career, out-stretching his arms and running around miming an aeroplane.
  — SI.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Successful flight in Mars’s thin atmosphere would earn the country that invented aeroplanes the additional honour of being first to fly an extraterrestrial aircraft.
  — The Economist, 22 Dec. 2019
• Archaeologists recently dug up a gigantic flying killer dinosaur as big as an aeroplane.
  — Jasper Hamill, Fox News, 25 May 2017
• Boeing, an American aeroplane-maker, claims that Bombardier used government subsidies to sell its new C-series airliners below cost.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• Still, gazing out of their aeroplane windows, returning holidaymakers may notice some of the things that hold their curious little continent together.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024