How to Use airplane in a Sentence
airplane
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In the past, Cruise has hung on the sides of skyscrapers and airplanes.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
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But that would not make an airplane fall out of the sky.
—Maren Estrada, BGR, 30 Nov. 2022
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All five adults aboard the Beechcraft 95 airplane were found dead.
—Nathaniel Percy, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
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Once the weather cleared, an airplane and three drones were launched to search the area.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
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The clip cut to a video of the athlete and her daughter on an airplane.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
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The trip was the first time my friend had ever been on an airplane.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
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In such a small airplane, would Carlisle have been able to take both men?
—Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2023
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My job was to get my ass on an airplane and hold her hand.
—Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2021
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Those long airplane flights and long waits in the airport are bad.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Aug. 2021
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Look up and guess where the airplane above you is headed.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
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Griner leaped down the airplane stairs and ran toward her.
—J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
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At the start, the brothers didn’t intend to invent the airplane.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
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Watched a movie on the airplane on the flight from Kansas City Monday.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 Feb. 2022
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The pilot then cut the speed, causing the airplane to descend.
—Allyson Versprille, Fortune, 16 June 2024
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Boeing has pushed out the launch of an all-new airplane toward the end of this decade.
—Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2022
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The airplane cabin was cramped with the extra gas tank.
—Paul Glenshaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
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This is not the sound of ordinance that's dropped from an airplane.
—Matt Seyler, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
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That may not sound like much compared to an airplane or even a car.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 27 Dec. 2021
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In the 1930s, an airplane could beat a train across the country by hopscotching from city to city.
—David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
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Partridge had paid for the family to take a scenic tour over the city in a small airplane.
—Michelle Rogers, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
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For the rest of her life, being on an airplane will remind her.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
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Some even fly on airplanes before they’re released back in the wild.
—Jason Gulley Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
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Want to drone out the rumbling of airplane jet engines or the chatter on trains?
—Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2024
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This works, Brian says, and leans back against the wall, the dog panting less, the faint whinny of a horse, an airplane.
—Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024
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At the time, cotton was needed for the airplane and truck tires being used in World War I.
—Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2024
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The urban plan follows the Cartesian shape of an airplane.
—Clarissa Tossin, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
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One of the worst parts about airplanes is the ice cold temperature.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 10 July 2025
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Wayne says: Alright, pump the brakes on the airplane and focus on your co-pilot.
—Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2022
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Dad told Leadon that a guitar in that case could fall onto an airplane tarmac without a scratch.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
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The Federal Aviation Administration issued an alert to local public safety agencies, pilots and airports about the missing airplane.
—Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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