How to Use plane in a Sentence
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That's way brighter than a plane.
—Spencer Wilson, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
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Watch planes at an ocean airstrip.
—Teaghan Skulszki, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
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Guys were an hour late to the plane.
—Eric Nehm, New York Times, 15 May 2026
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Kind of on the same plane of fame.
—Charlie Harding, Vulture, 15 May 2026
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The plane was screened, and no one was hurt.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 12 May 2026
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Best way to pass time on a long plane ride?
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
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And what's at stake here is more than just a plane.
—NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
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Wear it on the plane, with your shawl draped around your neck.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
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The area where the plane crashed and burned spanned half a mile.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
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Video showed flames on the plane's left wing and a trail of smoke.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2025
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The yellow planes will fly no more.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
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Such an honor to have you on the plane.
—Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2025
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The rockstar even has his own plane.
—Emily Olsen, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
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Rothman sat up at the front of the plane.
—Jon Landau, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
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All planes in the fleet were grounded.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
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One of his planes was in trouble.
—Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
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But the plane was unable to make it.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
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There was no one else on the plane, Lee said.
—Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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The body of the plane tears down the middle.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
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Why don’t all planes use that system?
—Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025
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Fire and smoke where the cargo plane crashed.
—Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 19 May 2026
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The same went with flying his own plane.
—Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
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And the plane circled the fields.
—Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
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Only so many planes can be turned around midair.
—E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
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Two people on board the plane died in the crash.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
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In a lot of ways, planes are my happy place.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 17 June 2026
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Two people were aboard each plane.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
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Go-to snack or drink order on the plane?
—Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
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There's a lot to love about being on a plane.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2026
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The plane deployed divers and boats.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
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The rough edges have been planed down, the cold chased out.
—Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
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Erect blackberries like 'Navaho' can be planed in traditional rows or grown as a hedge.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2025
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The inaugural yachts in the series were planing trawlers designed to navigate the high seas in style.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2024
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With your legs curved and feet perpendicular on top of the board, the board will plane at just three miles per hour and the pressure will tilt the board against your feet.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
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These twin pontoons are not planing hulls, nor are the Volvos especially powerful for this size yacht.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
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These days most of us use credit cards to pay for everything from coffee to plane tickets to purchases on Amazon.
—Ana Staples, wsj.com, 2 Dec. 2023
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This may solve the problem of the sticking door, but if the wood is permanently warped, your best bet for how to fix a sticky door is planing the door to fit the doorframe.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 July 2022
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Then, a time jump happens, and the book ends with Belly a little older, and planing to marry Conrad.
—Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
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The wood at the sale — kiln-dried, planed or air-dried — will be sold in slabs of different lengths and thicknesses ranging from three-quarters of an inch to three inches.
—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
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Removal of the Cranach paintings’ cradles at some unknown date in history required a process of scraping and planing the back.
—Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
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Timeline for the brand extends over the next two years into 2028, with new product launches planed over the next 24 months.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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It is built on an aluminum semi-planing hull designed for high-speed operations, exceeding 45 knots.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
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But other residents want the initiative to move ahead as planed, asserting that the changes will make the corridor safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.
—Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
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As for what’s next, the triplets have trips planed to visit their cousins in Miami before heading to Martha’s Vineyard for a large family gathering.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026
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Although planed and sanded to prevent splinters, the barnwood has a natural, untreated appearance for a casual wood kitchen cabinet color and finish.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2024
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It’s not associated with weather systems or geographic features on the ground, and as its name suggests, essentially jostles planes around in otherwise clear skies.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
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Besides the Cool Springs location, the brand is also planing to open stores at Opry Mills and West Town Mall in Knoxville this fall.
—Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
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In 2021, a man planed to propose to his girlfriend during a romantic gondola ride in Las Vegas, with passersby stopping to watch and record the sweet moment.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
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The Magellano’s Dual Mode Hull, a signature feature that has been on the vessels since the series started, is a semi-planing hull with a vertical bow.
—Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
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But officials from both airports, the state refugee bureau and a local resettlement agency said there was no evidence that planes full of unvetted individuals were arriving in Wisconsin.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2024
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Check Aircraft Alternatives Seats and amenities can vary dramatically, even from plane to plane within a single family of jets in a particular airline's fleet.
—Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
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Bronson announced a proposal to buy homeless people plane tickets out of the state or to other Alaska cities to avoid the frigid winter temperatures instead of standing up Anchorage's sports arena as a mass shelter.
—Mark Thiessen, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
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Conditions will remain dangerous through the weekend, and people need to plane carefully and be conservative when selecting terrain, according to the CAIC.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
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On Flight 12, however, the company planed to return Super Heavy a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico rather than risk a recovery mishap that could damage the pad on the first flight of brand-new hardware.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 23 May 2026
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All this culminates in a debut album, Addison, that planes down contemporary pop influences into an ooze of familiarity, faintly evoking innovations in underground and alternative music without stepping out of its playlist-friendly lane.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
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Atapco was planing to give the Aria Homeowner’s Association $100,000 to use at its discretion on infrastructure improvements, such as speed bumps.
—Desiree Mathurin april 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
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