How to Use cruising altitude in a Sentence

cruising altitude

noun

• The aircraft has hit cruising altitude, there’s no turbulence, and you’re settled comfortably in your seat, eager to give the in-flight entertainment your full attention.
  — Blane Bachelor, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024
• The pilot just announced that your flight has reached cruising altitude, so the seat belt sign has been turned off.
  — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 1 July 2023
• The mishap could have been far more catastrophic had the plane reached cruising altitude.
  — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• While some fall asleep before the plane reaches cruising altitude, others are antsy throughout a red-eye flight.
  — Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
• Homendy said that if the blowout had happened a few minutes later, after the plane reached cruising altitude, the accident might have become a tragedy.
  — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
• From what to sip with those delicious Biscoff cookies to the science behind our cravings at cruising altitude, here’s what Kuhn had to say.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• Riley moves fast out of the gate, in short order showing Cootie’s progress from giant baby, to giant boy and, when the series reaches its cruising altitude, giant 19-year-old.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• After the aircraft departed Kendari and reached cruising altitude, the pilot-in-command asked for permission to also rest and the second-in-command took over the aircraft.
  — Manveena Suri and Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• The playing is generally strong throughout, reaching cruising altitude after the first couple of dates, but as aways with Floyd concerts, the singing is very uneven and often off-key.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Jan. 2024
• Safety experts have said the accident could have been catastrophic if the Alaska jet had reached cruising altitude.
  — David Koenig, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
• The unnamed officials said that's because neither the United States nor its allies detected the heat signature of a missile capable of hitting this jet at cruising altitude.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
• Instead, the pilots pulled up, climbing to cruising altitude and continued to the flight’s destination of San Francisco without any other problems.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• This growing meteorological chaos is also being felt at cruising altitude.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024