mainline
Example Sentences
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The service is installed on more than 300 of those planes but just 18 of its mainline jets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
The tax burden would be disproportionately felt by progressive mainline Protestant churches, Black evangelical churches and immigrant-majority Catholic and Protestant congregations, not to mention immigrant-majority mosques and temples.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025
Alexander told BBC Breakfast that BTP officers would increase visible patrols at mainline stations over the coming days "because I do understand that people will want to feel reassured following what happened".
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025
With that guidance, officials canceled plans to transfer most of the inmates to mainline prisons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
But over the last forty years, evangelicals have pulled steadily closer in income and education to mainline Protestants in the historically affluent establishment denominations.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
