layover

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

But this is my third time back in Chicago as an adult, and the first that feels like more than a long layover — the first that’s starting to stitch itself into something like permanence.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

“I’m packing my patience,” said Jamie Haley, a marketing consultant based in Palm Springs, Calif. She’s planning to travel Friday to Toronto for a friend’s wedding, with a layover in Phoenix.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 6, 2025

The Nobel committee caught Yaghi this morning on a layover in Frankfurt, as he traveled from San Francisco to Brussels, to tell him the news.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Counting the layover in Hong Kong, it took Mother twenty-three hours to fly from London to Sydney.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti