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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

Sodais later said they were nervous — they had been questioned for an hour in Munich and nearly just as long on their layover in Lisbon.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

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

We had a few hours’ layover before we would take another plane to Cairo.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey