How to Use airliner in a Sentence

airliner

noun

• Before 9/11, no one thought of commercial airliners as weapons.
  — Christopher R. O'Dea, National Review, 20 June 2019
• Passengers were rescheduled to fly from there to Istanbul, the airliner shared.
  — Escher Walcott, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
• Tehran and Washington gave conflicting accounts of what occurred when the drone with an airliner's wingspan crashed into the sea.
  — oregonlive.com, 21 June 2019
• The new stadium in Strasbourg is using aluminium from old airliners, for example.
  — Matt Slater, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
• Some of the results will be unambiguously good—fewer missing airliners and secret missile programs.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 26 June 2019
• As the airliner taxied to begin its trek to Germany, Anton alerted the flight crew that he was supposed to be going to Sweden.
  — Steve Almasy and Andrea Diaz, CNN, 2 July 2019
• But even the best lithium-ion cells are still far from being able to power the workhorses of civil aviation: short-haul airliners carrying 150 or so passengers.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• The biennial Paris Air Show is typically a place for plane producers to showcase new products and rack up large airliner orders.
  — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 18 June 2019
• The airliner was at 1,800 feet and the drone was eye level with that plane.
  — cleveland, 17 June 2021
• Video showed a large plume of smoke and flames erupt as the airliner landed and continued down the the runway.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
• The cabin of an airliner can be chaotic and loud, so why add to the confusion?
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• The crashes prompted the longest flying ban for a U.S. airliner in the jet age.
  — Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2019
• Again, the wide-body airliner was tailored to his lavish tastes.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 June 2023
• There have been rare instances of holes opening in the fuselages of airliners.
  — David Koenig, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
• Southwest has been stinging from the loss the airliner’s use, as about 5 percent of its flights were on the Boeing 737 Max.
  — Marcia Heroux Pounds, sun-sentinel.com, 25 July 2019
• Gadhafi is said to have thanked Masud for his role in blowing up the airliner.
  — Darcie Moran and Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2022
• Delta has been the charter airliner for most NBA teams, including the Jazz.
  — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 Aug. 2024
• There are many lessons to be learned from the Max, many of which should help make the next generation of airliners safer and more robust.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2019
• Ukraine is home to the Antonov plant, which once manufactured the largest and most powerful freight airliners in the world.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2020
• The aircraft was delivered to the airliner from Boeing in June 2015 and had been flying for more than six years.
  — NBC News, 22 Mar. 2022
• The airliner was hit the hardest by last month’s CrowdStrike outage.
  — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 Aug. 2024
• The process is a little like boarding an airliner: If everyone grabs the first seats up front, that slows access to the rear seats.
  — Steven Ashley, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2021
• The White House was deciding whether to shoot down a hijacked airliner.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2020
• The group tried and failed at least three times to blow up American airliners, and has been targeted by U.S. drone strikes for two decades.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 12 Mar. 2024
• The economy seats on these are slightly wider than the Airbus airliner seats.
  — Michael Boyd, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• The top climate performer is the train, which emits only about 16 percent as much as an airliner over the same distance.
  — Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• Damage to the exterior of the wide-body airliner has since been repaired.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 6 July 2022
• Its flight time included soaring over the Grand Canyon in the 1930s and serving as an airliner in Honduras.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 July 2023
• Each year Boom plans to manufacture as many as 33 of the aircraft, which the company claims will be the world’s fastest airliner.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2024
• The 787 Dreamliner is a wide-body airliner made by Boeing.
  — WSJ, 26 June 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024