How to Use airliner in a Sentence
airliner
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There are many lessons to be learned from the Max, many of which should help make the next generation of airliners safer and more robust.
— John Cox, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2019 -
The crashes prompted the longest flying ban for a U.S. airliner in the jet age.
— Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2019 -
Anonymous Answer: Most airliners have two or more tires in each position (left main, right main and nose).
— John Cox, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019 -
This is the most important moment in the life of an airliner: when the new owner signs for it and picks it up, much like a driver picking up a new car from a dealer.
— Antonio Dini, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2024 -
Cellular reception is uniformly awful on airliners parked at gates.
— Christopher Schaberg, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2019 -
Problems with the engine have delayed the first flight of Boeing’s newest 777X long-haul airliner until next year.
— The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019 -
Passengers and crew enjoy a wild party aboard an airliner flying from Los Angeles to New York.
— Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019 -
With airliners grounded, convention goers scrambled to book rental cars from a hopelessly inadequate supply.
— oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019 -
His last periodic health examination was taken on March 8 and showed no signs of health problems that would affect his work, according to the airliner.
— Escher Walcott, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024 -
The airliner was at 1,800 feet and the drone was eye level with that plane.
— cleveland, 17 June 2021 -
Video showed a large plume of smoke and flames erupt as the airliner landed and continued down the the runway.
— Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024 -
The cabin of an airliner can be chaotic and loud, so why add to the confusion?
— Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023 -
Again, the wide-body airliner was tailored to his lavish tastes.
— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 June 2023 -
There have been rare instances of holes opening in the fuselages of airliners.
— David Koenig, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024 -
Gadhafi is said to have thanked Masud for his role in blowing up the airliner.
— Darcie Moran and Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2022 -
Delta has been the charter airliner for most NBA teams, including the Jazz.
— Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 Aug. 2024 -
Ukraine is home to the Antonov plant, which once manufactured the largest and most powerful freight airliners in the world.
— Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2020 -
The aircraft was delivered to the airliner from Boeing in June 2015 and had been flying for more than six years.
— NBC News, 22 Mar. 2022 -
The airliner was hit the hardest by last month’s CrowdStrike outage.
— Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 Aug. 2024 -
The process is a little like boarding an airliner: If everyone grabs the first seats up front, that slows access to the rear seats.
— Steven Ashley, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2021 -
The White House was deciding whether to shoot down a hijacked airliner.
— Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2020 -
The group tried and failed at least three times to blow up American airliners, and has been targeted by U.S. drone strikes for two decades.
— Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 12 Mar. 2024 -
The economy seats on these are slightly wider than the Airbus airliner seats.
— Michael Boyd, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023 -
The top climate performer is the train, which emits only about 16 percent as much as an airliner over the same distance.
— Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 29 May 2021 -
Damage to the exterior of the wide-body airliner has since been repaired.
— Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 6 July 2022 -
Its flight time included soaring over the Grand Canyon in the 1930s and serving as an airliner in Honduras.
— Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 July 2023 -
Each year Boom plans to manufacture as many as 33 of the aircraft, which the company claims will be the world’s fastest airliner.
— IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2024 -
The 787 Dreamliner is a wide-body airliner made by Boeing.
— WSJ, 26 June 2023 -
But Overture, the airliner that will be assembled there, is years away.
— Tim Stevens, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024 -
In total, two others—both the size of a jet airliner—are scheduled to slip past Earth on February 18.
— Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2022
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