airplane
Example Sentences
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The president is effusive the first time that he greets his wife on an airplane tarmac alongside the film crew.
From Los Angeles Times
Half-heartedly, I try holding a few other items that belonged to Dad as a kid: a baseball glove, a model airplane, a postcard from my mom.
From Literature
He pitched the nose of the airplane down, pushing past the red “never exceed” line on the air speed indicator of his Cessna 182.
From Literature
The agency’s rules touch virtually every facet of transportation safety, including regulations that keep airplanes in the sky, prevent gas pipelines from exploding and stop freight trains carrying toxic chemicals from skidding off the rails.
From Salon
Countries all over the world have agreed to purchase hundreds of state-of-the-art aircraft and airplane engines from U.S. factories, creating thousands of jobs and strengthening our defense industrial base.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
