How to Use jetliner in a Sentence

jetliner

noun

• Last but not least: Meet 747, who fans joke is the size of the wide-body jetliner.
  — National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020
• The first aircraft on the right is what looks like a civilian jetliner.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2022
• The last deadly crash of a civilian jetliner in the country was in 2010.
  — NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022
• Three of the asteroids are about the size of a commercial jetliner, and the largest is 170 feet long.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• The jetliner was cruising at about 595 mph before the dive.
  — Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein/bloomberg, Time, 23 Mar. 2022
• These are not just cracks, but canyons large enough to swallow a jetliner, or spires the size of monuments.
  — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
• The jetliner dispute is the longest since the WTO’s inception.
  — Josh Zumbrun and Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
• Shoegaze was everywhere this year, surging like a wave of crushed glass and soaring like a jetliner gleaming in the light of the setting sun.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
• But when jetliners hit the scene, rail travel languished.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2023
• American has about 255 of the workhorse jetliners in its fleet that are near the two-decade mark where maintenance costs soar.
  — From Staff Reports, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
• About fifteen hundred years ago, the monks carved two statues of the Buddha, each as big as a jetliner, into the porous stone.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Ryanair said Belarusian flight controllers told the pilots there was a bomb threat against the jetliner and ordered it to land in Minsk.
  — NBC News, 21 Jan. 2022
• Ryanair said Belarusian flight controllers told the pilots that there was a bomb threat against the jetliner and ordered them to land in Minsk.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 25 May 2021
• Salem al-Hazmi would join his brother aboard the jetliner that crashed into the western façade of the Pentagon.
  — Mike Kelly, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021
• Spy equipment the size of a jetliner exploded in seven miles of 50-foot deep water.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
• That’s as if four big jetliners crashed every seven days.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• China’s last deadly crash of a civilian jetliner was in 2010.
  — Ken Moritsugu, ajc, 21 Mar. 2022
• The Senate committee’s report comes a month after the FAA lifted its ban on the jetliner, which had been grounded for 20 months.
  — Author: Ian Duncan, Lori Aratani, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2020
• So, the notion that Boeing has nobody to blame but itself for the decline of its jetliner business is nonsense.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• The destruction was the wreckage of his DC-6 jetliner in the tropical forest outside the airport in Ndola, in what is now Zambia.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• Its vehicle, a rocketplane that is air launched from the bottom of a jetliner, also shoots up to the edge of space before gliding back to land on earth.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 19 July 2021
• One of two plugs on an Alaska Airlines jetliner blew out shortly after the plane took off from Portland, Oregon, a week ago, leaving a hole in the plane.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• Passengers wait to be rescued on the wings of a jetliner that safely ditched in the Hudson River in New York in 2009 after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines.
  — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
• Those private jets emit 10 times more carbon than commercial jetliners and 50 times more than trains.
  — Simon Constable, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2024
• The roll out marks the end of an era for the airplane, with the final flying days of the planet's most recognizable jetliner clearly approaching.
  — Howard Slutsken, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• The company failed to record a single order for a new jetliner in September.
  — David Koenig, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• China’s last deadly crash of a civilian jetliner was in August 2010.
  — Ken Moritsugu, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2022
• In 1962, the British and French governments signed a pact to develop a supersonic jetliner, called the Concorde.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 28 May 2022
• Think of a jetliner hitting the tarmac smoothly, or at least with an impact no more jarring than a bump that causes a few bags to tumble from overhead bins.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2022
• The jetliner cracked and broke into several sections, then fell into the Atlantic.
  — Mike Kelly, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024