How to Use airliner in a Sentence

airliner

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  • 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
  • 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 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 economy seats on these are slightly wider than the Airbus airliner seats.
    — Michael Boyd, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Carbon fiber was the hero of the day, and the EB110’s carbon-fiber tub was woven by Aérospatiale, builder of the Concorde supersonic airliner.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 18 July 2022
  • Visions of airliner crashes that inevitably, if one waited long enough, came true somewhere in the world.
    — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • This is the fifth close call involving a commercial airliner on a runway this year.
    — Pete Muntean, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
  • An order of that size by American would add to the trend of mega-deals as demand booms for narrowbody airliners.
    — From Staff Reports, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in the country’s worst air disaster in a decade.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Overhead, an airliner en route to LAX adds a wash of distant white noise to the sound-makers wandering among the relaxed with rain sticks, shakers and bells.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Not only is the ship 9,100 feet under the sea, but so is its voyage data recorder—the maritime equivalent of an airliner’s black box.
    — Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022
  • After leaving the zoo, the crown prince was driven to Lindbergh Field where he was shown Convair’s 880 jet airliner.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The company lost money in its airliner and defense units, although less than a year ago.
    — David Koenig, ajc, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The Concorde was limited to a top speed of Mach 2, while today’s passenger airliners fly at around 600 mph.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023
  • As planned, the plane could be flown by a single pilot, but there will be two seats up front for pilots like a traditional airliner.
    — Alex Stone, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Flights ended in 2014 after a civilian airliner was shot down.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Obviously, a small plane shouldn't require as much power as a large airliner, so that makes sense.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Jefferson was, though, interviewed by the FBI after the airliner crashed.
    — Ana Faguy, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • In some cases, the airliner will have to drop down to a lower altitude where there are better conditions to fly with one engine.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And this culminates in the shoot down of a passenger jet, a Malaysian airliner in July, that kills almost 300 people over eastern Ukraine.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Moments later, the same thing happened as a German airliner was taking off.
    — Emily Steel, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023

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