planeload

noun

plane·load ˈplān-ˌlōd

: a load that fills an airplane

Examples of planeload in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Watch the video below to see Xavier celebrating his graduation with a planeload of strangers. —

Ronnie Li, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024 Each planeload of cocaine was worth more than $20 million once offloaded in Belgium or the Netherlands. —

Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 July 2024 On Monday, two full planeloads arrived in Miami with passengers who hours before had no other choice but to get on a bus and pray. —

Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024 Russia’s military intervention in Syria in 2015 again pitted Moscow against Islamist groups, and a planeload of Russian tourists was destroyed, reportedly by an ISIS bomb, over Egypt’s Sinai Desert that year, killing 224 people. —

Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for planeload

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