Thesaurus results for LINER

liner

noun

Definition of liner

as in plane

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Recent Examples of liner The rest of her Emmys look was soft and sweet, with delicate pink shades on her cheeks and lips and a few strokes of liner and mascara to define her blue eyes. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 15 Sep. 2026 Perhaps another year of development will prime him to move up the lineup, but he might be better suited as a valuable third-liner who can contribute on special teams. — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Even among his fellow preservationists, Berman has developed a reputation as a hard-liner. — David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026 Munetaka Murakami nearly had the Chicago White Sox’s first hit Thursday night, leading off the seventh inning with a sinking liner to right field. — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for liner

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Noun

On the plane from Lisbon to London, a fire broke out in the cockpit.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
The pool covers events that are widely open to the press and is in more limited spaces like awaiting the president underneath the wing of Air Force One and travelling with him aboard the plane.

— Garrett Downs, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of plane

Noun

Some of the guests on board had upcoming bookings for the top-of-the-line (and priced like it) ship, though many remained quite fond of our Le Lyrial.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
New assistants, agents and editor plug-ins ship every month aimed squarely at engineers, who are bombarded with ads and news about each release.

— Rob Black, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of ship

Noun

Then, in July, whatever remained of the truce between the Saudis and the Houthis collapsed, after the Saudis, who control Yemen’s airspace, refused to let an Iranian airliner land at the airport in Sana’a.

— Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
Flight 77 struck the building’s western face, killing 184 people — 125 inside and 59 aboard the airliner.

— Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of airliner

Noun

Police said a white Peterbilt semi truck driving north with a tractor and tanker trailer struck the pedestrian.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026
In response, the Saudis redirected Asia shipments northwest to the Mediterranean, either through the Suez Canal or — for tankers too big to use it — a pipeline across Egypt to another tanker.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of tanker

Noun

All 18 men, dressed in blue jumpsuits, were seen boarding the large gray military aircraft.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2026
Designed to fly at Mach 2 The TMS-10 project centers on a 10- to 15-seat supersonic business aircraft intended for business travel and high-end tourism.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

Archer serves as the official air taxi provider for LA28 and Team USA.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026
To make things even more complicated, the only possible way to travel between the small town on the south shore of Lake Clark and surrounding, metropolitan like the state’s capital or Anchorage is via a roughly hours-long seaplane air taxi.

— Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of air taxi

Noun

Brown says the company plans a blimp that can stay aloft for 24 hours or more within a year, which raises the question of what an advertising airship does at night.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Emphasizing that any drone can be a threat in a restricted area, the FBI referred to an incident last year during the LA fires when a man flew his drone into a Super Scooper water dropping airship, grounding it for five days.

— Tom Wait, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of airship

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