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a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift
my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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Recent Examples of airplane
My favourite part was the airplane sequence.
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Kyle Denis, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
That’s the industry term for flying bigger airplanes.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2025
Boeing didn’t mention the system in airplane manuals, and most pilots didn’t know about it.
—Jamie Stengle, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Is a black box required on all airplanes?
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
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Kyle Denis, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
That’s the industry term for flying bigger airplanes.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2025
Boeing didn’t mention the system in airplane manuals, and most pilots didn’t know about it.
—Jamie Stengle, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Is a black box required on all airplanes?
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for airplane
Recent Examples of Synonyms for airplane
Noun
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Among the dead are believed to be the three crew members on the UPS plane and a still unknown number on the ground.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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Shaggy, the reggae and dancehall artist, has been personally coordinating food, water, and medicine dispersal to those in need using a network of private planes.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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The technology can fuel any form of transport, including yachts, ships, ferries, aeroplanes, trains, cars, buses, and trucks.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
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Her child looks up at the aeroplane in the sky, flying through dusk, through twilight, flying through the beginning of the end of the day.—
Deborah Levy,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The aircraft was described by the FAA as a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, a trijet wide-body airliner manufactured by McDonnell Douglas and later Boeing.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Both the helicopter and airliner crashed into the Potomac River.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Airplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airplane. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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