jetting

present participle of jet
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of jetting The agents pretended not to know that the pilots spent their time jetting around Maduro and other top officials. Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025 An interstellar comet is dramatically jetting off ice and dust into space, a new image shows. Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025 The band, which still doesn’t include Richie Sambora, will be performing four nights at Madison Square Garden in July — the same month as Rush’s quartet of reunion shows, coincidentally — before jetting off for three additional dates in Ireland, Scotland, and England. Devon Ivie, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025 Danvers woman Michelle Bowman had apparently done just that — jetting off to vacation destinations as the Salem court clerk allegedly embezzled more than $70,000 in bail funds. Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 2025 In the 1960s, Jay Sebring made a giant leap from middle-class Michigan boy and Navy veteran to stylist to the stars, tooling around Hollywood in his Shelby Cobra convertible and jetting off to cut the hair of Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and more. Susan Young, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025 Simple accommodations and sweeping views of Roark Bluff, a mile-long formation jetting 220 feet into the sky, make this one of the most popular stays in the park. Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025 Emily Ratajkowski Emily Ratajkowski arrived at the runway show in London with thin black eyeliner jetting out from the corners of her eyes. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025 After the initial outcry, Sanders continued jetting himself around the country. Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jetting
Verb
  • Black Drip Coffee This type of coffee is brewed by slowly pouring hot water over ground coffee beans in a filter, which is set over top of a glass pot or carafe.
    Laura Schober, Health, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Halcomb said the major flooding Louisville saw in February and April played a role in delays as well, because crews had to wait for the ground to dry before concrete pouring could resume.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hours later, the vessel careened into a nearby bridge, ejecting 19-year-old Mallory Beach into the dark water.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Jeep had all four tires leave the ground crossing Township Street and then Paulman lost control on Ora Street, hit a utility pole and rolled, ejecting the passenger, according to the affidavit.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Except for the blood that was rushing away from his body, pouring out from his neck, his throat split open wide as a shark’s mouth.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Chase Brown also helped open up the passing game, rushing for 108 yards on 11 carries.
    Jon Conahan, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There, the Cougars celebrated by erupting into song.
    Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Thunderstorms erupting in the South and Midwest to kick off the weekend could turn severe and produce dangerous winds, a few tornadoes and heavy rain.
    Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Air Force is repeatedly flying heavy bombers near the Venezuelan coast as a show of force, too.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Over the years, he's developed a reputation for flying vintage airplanes, even after suffering a near-death plane crash that left his right ankle and pelvis shattered and his back broken in March 2015.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bigelow’s film, now streaming on Netflix, is divided into three chapters, telling the story from three different perspectives.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Nobody Wants This season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One poll found that eighty-two per cent of Israeli Jews favored expelling Gazans.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Mali’s military leadership, which came to power in a 2021 coup, has overseen a dramatic shift in domestic policy, from being a major counterterrorism partner of France to expelling French troops and instead turning to Russia for security assistance.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Praneeth Kumar Usiripalli is charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm while traveling on an aircraft, according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
    Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Sacrament revolves around two cousins from San Bernardino, Larette and Cherrise, who, along with two traveling nurses—four ICU nurses in all—are isolating in individual Mallard trailers in CamperWorld, three blocks from Our Lady of Sorrows hospital.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025

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“Jetting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jetting. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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