How to Use wide-body in a Sentence

wide-body

noun
  • Chrysler styling is into the wide-body mode these days—witness the upcoming Viper.
    Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 4 July 2023
  • The money matters, even if a wide-body contract has never enabled a player to buy the other part of the dream.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 28 July 2024
  • Core to the facility are four new gates for wide-body planes, bringing the total number of gates in the terminal to 16.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Dec. 2023
  • First introduced in 2007, the four-engine, wide-body plane came onto the scene with mixed reactions.
    Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2023
  • The 787 Dreamliner is a wide-body airliner made by Boeing.
    WSJ, 26 June 2023
  • That wide-body kit, added for a menacing emphasis, came in either steel or fiberglass and was only added to a handful of the 300 SEC Hammers built.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 23 June 2024
  • The engine has been used on a number of wide-body jets, including older versions of Boeing Co.’s 747 jumbo jet.
    Albertina Torsoli, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Lufthansa will also retrofit existing wide-body aircraft, such as the Boeing 747.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Shape Two common shapes are wide-body (which looks square-ish) and elongated (which looks rectangular), says Coughlin.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 22 July 2024
  • Unlike wide-body planes, narrow-body jets are sold in larger numbers and, thus, need to be churned out rapidly; Boeing and Airbus aim to produce dozens every month.
    Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • The airline is also in the process of trying to buy fellow West Coast carrier Hawaiian Airlines, which would expand its fleet to 365 narrow and wide-body aircraft.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Still uncertain is whether Europe will yield to Chinese pressure to assemble wide-body jets in China.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Designed for the commercial jet market, the Jetliner will create a niche between single-aisle jets and wide-bodies.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 17 May 2023
  • The car, which appeared in episode seven of The Last Dance, is finished in metallic dark blue and features custom exterior work, including a wide-body kit and chrome monobloc wheels, by Lorinser.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 July 2023
  • The horizontal bunks will be installed on existing wide-body aircraft.
    Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Over the years, the 747’s supremacy was gradually supplanted by more fuel-efficient twin-engine wide-body planes.
    Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
  • The Dreamliner is a wide-body jet that is more fuel efficient than many other aircraft used for long trips, in part because of its lightweight composite construction.
    James Glanz, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Demand for larger jets, bullish bets on travel growth and strains on planemakers’ ability to meet demand for single-aisle aircraft this decade is fueling a surge in wide-body orders.
    Danny Lee, Fortune Asia, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Riyadh Air, a new airline launched by the Saudi sovereign-wealth fund over the weekend, is expected to commit to purchasing 39 of the wide-body jets, while existing carrier Saudia is expected to buy the same number of jets, these people said.
    Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Including the new order and existing wide-body deals, the airline now has 440 aircraft on order with deliveries extending into the next decade, American said.
    Mary Schlangenstein, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The business-class configuration on its wide-body A350 goes a long way in substantiating that reputation.
    Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2023
  • In April, the committee heard from whistleblowers, including one who said that portions of the company’s 787 Dreamliner wide-body jets were improperly fitted and joined together.
    Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 18 June 2024

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