How to Use landing gear in a Sentence

landing gear

noun

• In fact, there wasn't any landing gear.
  — New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
• There are four wheels on each of the plane’s two main landing gears.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 8 July 2024
• This was after the plane’s landing gear touched down.
  — Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
• Who are those Afghans who were on the landing gear of the plane and fell?
  — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
• When the wheels retract, some stowaways are crushed by the landing gear.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The three feet of Philae’s landing gear can be seen in some of the frames.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2014
• Parts from the plane, including landing gear, were strewn across the street.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
• When the plane hit the ground, the landing gear on the right side of the aircraft collapsed.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
• One of the aircraft’s landing gear legs—the rear one on the left—decides to stay down.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 24 June 2020
• The chief of these is the plane’s landing gear, which can be raised or lowered with a twist of the tail cone.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2023
• The video shows the nose landing gear bay doors were open, but the gear didn’t come down as expected.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2020
• Some commercial airlines come in low and slow with landing gear down.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 22 May 2020
• The plane's right main landing gear collapsed on contact with the runway.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2025
• An overweight landing can add stress to the plane’s landing gear and parts of the structure.
  — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 24 July 2026
• The landing gear and flaps were both found retracted, the report said.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025
• The retractable landing gear also reduces drag for a faster, smoother flight.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2022
• This group of six circled twice as Solsrud called and then dropped in, landing gear down.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2017
• There's even retractable landing gear and the cockpit opens to reveal five seats for the flight crew.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 13 Dec. 2022
• His Citabria monoplane had grazed the ground, smashing the craft’s landing gear.
  — oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2020
• The plane was not airborne, and all its landing gear was on the ground when the incident took place.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
• Delta plane lands without nose gear What goes up must come down – even without nose landing gear!
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• Nestled between the legs of its landing gear was a red balloon filled with water.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Dec. 2025
• The third set of landing gear – on the back left of the plane – didn’t touch down until nine seconds later.
  — Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
• The nose landing gear and right main landing gear touched down first, with a ground speed of 158 knots.
  — Ted Scouten, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
• The plane's landing gear passes just above the cab, followed by the sounds of the light pole hitting the truck.
  — Russell Lewis, NPR, 4 June 2026
• Such attempts to hide in landing gear compartments have proven deadly in the past.
  — Ali Watkins, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• The nose landing gear and the landing gear on the right side of the plane touched down, but not left side, Shin said.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026
• The airplane’s main landing gear support failed, and the body of the jet went sliding down the runway.
  — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
• The wing and landing gear were found nearly two miles from the main crash site, suggesting that the plane broke up in the air.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• The wing and landing gear were found just under two miles from the main crash site, suggesting that the plane broke up in the air.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023