Thesaurus results for AEROPLANE

aeroplane

noun

ˈer-ə-ˌplān

chiefly British

as in airplane

a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift an exhibit of a few of the aeroplanes that won the Battle of Britain

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Recent Examples of aeroplane It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square. —

Annika Pham, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025 This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol. —

Brian Dillon, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024 An aeroplane flies behind the Adani logo near a building construction site in Mumbai. —

Sam Meredith, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024 While turbulence has occasionally caused aeroplanes to crash, most of those tragedies happened several decades ago before modern safety analysis techniques made flying safer. —

Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for aeroplane

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Their job is to program the movable parts on an airplane’s tail and wings—the rudder, elevators, and nearly two dozen ailerons, flaperons, and spoilers—to smooth out its flight automatically when turbulence hits.

— Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
The 737 family of airplanes has carried more than 30 million passengers over the last 60 years, according to the manufacturer, but never has carried documents like these.

— Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026