How to Use airplane in a Sentence

airplane

noun
  • But that would not make an airplane fall out of the sky.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Building a paper airplane can be done in five easy steps.
    Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The giant weather balloons fly twice as high as airplanes cruise.
    Diana Olick, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The world’s tallest woman was able to make her first trip on an airplane after an airline removed six seats.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The second jump out of the airplane is more terrifying.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2022
  • This works, Brian says, and leans back against the wall, the dog panting less, the faint whinny of a horse, an airplane.
    Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The comet's display is expected to resemble that of an airplane contrail extending up and to the right.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The history of the first paper airplane is largely debated.
    Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Outside, an airplane roared over the sprawling metropolis.
    Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The union’s members could vote Wednesday on the deal, which could end a costly walkout that has crippled production of airplanes for more than a month.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The airplane was lowered to the ground by authorities about three hours after the occupants' rescue Monday morning.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In the past, Cruise has hung on the sides of skyscrapers and airplanes.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • All five adults aboard the Beechcraft 95 airplane were found dead.
    Nathaniel Percy, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Once the weather cleared, an airplane and three drones were launched to search the area.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The clip cut to a video of the athlete and her daughter on an airplane.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
  • In such a small airplane, would Carlisle have been able to take both men?
    Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Griner leaped down the airplane stairs and ran toward her.
    J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • The pilot then cut the speed, causing the airplane to descend.
    Allyson Versprille, Fortune, 16 June 2024
  • Boeing has pushed out the launch of an all-new airplane toward the end of this decade.
    Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The airplane cabin was cramped with the extra gas tank.
    Paul Glenshaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • This is not the sound of ordinance that's dropped from an airplane.
    Matt Seyler, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In the 1930s, an airplane could beat a train across the country by hopscotching from city to city.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • For the rest of her life, being on an airplane will remind her.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Some even fly on airplanes before they’re released back in the wild.
    Jason Gulley Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Want to drone out the rumbling of airplane jet engines or the chatter on trains?
    Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2024
  • At the time, cotton was needed for the airplane and truck tires being used in World War I.
    Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The urban plan follows the Cartesian shape of an airplane.
    Clarissa Tossin, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • The sheriff took him into custody on a theft of an airplane charge.
    Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Anything right now that happens to a United airplane makes the news.
    David Koenig, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Landing an airplane 700 feet above the ground on a tennis-court-sized space sounds crazy.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2023

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