How to Use hangar in a Sentence

hangar

noun
  • The slide — and a couple of aliens — in the Area 51 hangar.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The plane was parked in the dark next to a hangar with shades drawn.
    Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The wings also fold up when not in use to save space in the hangar.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The Area 51 hangar is one of three rental units on the property.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Two Boeing 747-8 planes — the largest in the UPS fleet — will fit inside the hangar.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2023
  • Hydraulic hangar doors open the facade up to the outdoors.
    Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The cab pulled up to a gray hangar, outside Jersey City.
    Vera Carothers, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • And the massive roll-up garage doors give the in-house restaurant, Roger, the feel of a spacious hangar.
    Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Then the hangar doors slowly opened and the B-21 was towed partially out of the building.
    Tara Copp, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Inside, in order to fix the hangar controls Leia has to climb up into the vent to save the day.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • Some even believe that the U.S. government filmed the 1969 moon landing in one of the base’s hangars.
    Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Work on the new hangar is expected to begin in the fall, Vicari said.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • The military does not build fighter jets just to store them in hangars.
    Kendall Hoyt, Fortune, 11 May 2023
  • There’s this huge hangar with the plane, motorbikes and trinkets.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2 June 2022
  • The airport plans to build a new hangar on the site for Wingtip Aviation, of Valparaiso, which will lease it.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Surveillance video showed the 36-year-old walking away from a hangar at the airport.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, the LA teams pitched redevelopment plans for the south blimp hangar in Tustin (the one that didn’t burn).
    Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
  • At one point, the team’s offices were inside an airport hangar.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The force of bombs exploding on the flight deck punched down into the hangar and three decks underneath.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
  • The pickleball building was an open, hangar-like space.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The video then cuts to Walker, 44, inside an airport hangar, picking up the tune as Nick Carter.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Hangar 375 is listed by Guinness World Records as the largest free-standing hangar.
    Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Take a driving tour around the ranch, or see the hangar and air strip that Johnson had made for quick flights to and from Washington.
    Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Unfortunately, the Mriya had been in its hangar at Hostomel at the start of the attack, and was caught in the attack.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2023
  • Most of the land is unsuitable for constructing new launch pads or hangars.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In the video, a spokeswoman walks the viewer into a hangar full of known Northrop Grumman aircraft—and one unknown plane on the left (above).
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
  • The debris struck a hangar where people were sheltering.
    Courtney Kube, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Its base looks like the hangar of a spaceship, its turret the pinnacle of a fantasy fortress.
    Patrick Kingsley Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The hangar construction will include 7,000 square feet of office space.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Overhead truss lighting fills the hangar with hues of red, green and blue, and lighting from above simulates snowflakes.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023

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