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Example Sentences

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There is just one direct flight per day from Glasgow to New York and with so few seats left, the cost is more than double travelling via a layover in Amsterdam.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

But it wasn’t until the fall of 2022, during a layover at Miami airport, that things really accelerated.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

It was the summer of 2016, and my family and I were travelling back to the States from Bangladesh — an arduous 23-hour-long journey that was further extended by a 12+ hour layover in Istanbul.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

A 12-hour layover in Istanbul, a summer abroad in Paris, a weekend trip to Athens from London, a visit to a friend in Seoul.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

But as it turned out, everyone who had eaten the smoked salmon in the first-class airport lounge during our layover in Poland—like I had—was now suffering these unfortunate consequences.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad