by air

idiom

: by flying in airplanes
travel by air

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Ros and his team specialize in shuttling clients by air, over the notoriously nauseating Drake Passage, to rendezvous with a waiting expedition vessel. Brad Japhe, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2025 Opposite Maye, the Browns are starting third-round rookie Dillon Gabriel, whose completion percentage is a tick below 60% despite throwing the shortest completions in the league by air yards. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025 The military buildup has been reinforced by air operations. Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025 If this were a Bond movie, these characters would cross the entire distance by air, in first class, in the split-second gap between scenes, but Pullman leans into the arduous business of travel. Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for by air

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“By air.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20air. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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