Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for plane. Search instead for planel.
Definitions

plane

[playn] / pleɪn /






Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

An early critic compared Salon to an old-fashioned airship, richly appointed and comfortable but more slow-moving than an actual plane.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

The C-130 Hercules plane left the Indonesian capital Jakarta for East Kalimantan province on Thursday to join local water-bombing efforts, the Indonesian disaster agency chief said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Prosecutors previously alleged Alfozan booked one-way plane tickets from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul for himself, his wife and their newborn son departing on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The distance indicates that part of the aircraft separated before the plane hit the ground, according to federal investigators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

He gasped as the plane lurched forward, ready for takeoff.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

Through six editions now, their clear, planed prose has proved an essential reference for Angelenos in search of all the treasures that bejewel L.A.’s rumpled topography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

Every time we managed to summit a dune, following a sand ridge perfectly planed by the wind and sinking with each step, another beckoned us ahead.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

“What’s different about these is that they’ve planed the face, and you can see the different pieces of aggregate, the stone used to make the blocks, when you’re up close,” she says.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

He’d cut and planed a new plank for over the ditch too.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The committee set aside $21.5 million for “hybrid composite structures research for enhanced mobility,” “electric propulsion for military craft and advanced planing hulls” and a “test bed for autonomous ship systems.”

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Garfield is goodness personified; we meet him on his farm, cooking breakfast for the family, planing wood to make a picnic table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

The process typically involves painstakingly planing the organisms off the boat, before processing waste through a complex filtration system.

From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023

The firm processes the timber on three planing lines at the port run by 47 people.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2021

I could hear the Great American Gelding snoring away like a planing mill.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner


Vocabulary lists containing plane

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training