How to Use biplane in a Sentence

biplane

noun

• That's how the stacked wings of the World War One biplane were born.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
• Take to the skies in the nose of a 1930 New Standard four-passenger biplane?
  — Eric Kurhi, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2017
• So when he was offered the chance this week to take a ride in a 1929 biplane, he was thrilled at the chance to thread the clouds once again.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2018
• The open-cockpit biplane sliced into the brush, spun, and crashed to a cacophonous stop some 15 to 20 feet from the lake.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2021
• The Wright brothers knew that a monoplane may have less drag, but a biplane was stronger.
  — Walter J. Boyne and Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2021
• Meanwhile, a biplane flies over and around the mountain searching for signs of life.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2018
• Above is The Evening Sun Curtiss biplane, the first airplane used by a paper to cover the news.
  — baltimoresun.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The young woman in the cockpit of the biplane studied the control panel, then flipped a switch and signaled to the ground crew.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
• As the World War I-surplus biplane picked up speed, the pilot eased back on the stick and gently climbed into the air.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
• Not since her first ride in a biplane in 1919, when the pilot did loop-de-loops to terrify her.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2021
• And what could be more road-car-like than not having a gigantic biplane attached to the back of a car?
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2022
• Standing on a biplane while flying over a canyon in South Africa is a typical day in the life of Cruise.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• The rear end flies a tall biplane setup with a large wing perched above a second smaller airfoil.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
• In the scene from the Alfred Hitchcock suspense film, Cary Grant is pursued by a crop-dusting biplane.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
• That man, George Wentworth, owed the elder Mason for building him a biplane.
  — Jason Pohl, azcentral, 4 July 2018
• On the left are images of a farmer, grapevines, barn and tractor with a biplane from Ramona Airport flying overhead.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2019
• Hammontree’s new seaplane was a biplane with two open seats.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
• According to Army records, Kelly flew his biplane for about five minutes and made a hard landing.
  — From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2018
• Others shoot Black people while a biplane rains gunfire and firebombs from above.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
• Naderi honors the grit and wits of such kids, but the distance is considerable between Amiro’s life and one that would put him in a biplane for places unknown.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• The video shows a biplane soaring over warships of the U.S. Navy and creating an instantaneous wall of smoke large enough to hide a fleet behind.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2020
• Rolling down the deck, the biplane plunged towards the water, its wheels dipping into the sea before ascending and landing on the nearby shore.
  — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2018
• By the morning of June 1, whites were using biplanes to drop incendiary bombs over the neighborhood.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 1 June 2017
• As Johnson was evening the match with a 6-1 second-set triumph, Grier dipped the biplane low over the crowd so that Saxe, leaning out an open cockpit door, could get an ideal view.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Like a living biplane, Microraptor boasted two sets of wings — that’s four in total, one each on its hind and forelimbs.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
• For most Alaskans in 1913, Captain Martin and his biplane were curiosities, more like a circus act than a harbinger for the future.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
• Grosser has been a pilot for more than 40 years and has flown everything from gliders and biplanes to helicopters and seaplanes.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• After his retirement, Mr. Barker built from scratch and flew an open cockpit biplane.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Some assert that a grip can hardly be considered an inapt jail without also being a biplane.
  — Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
• The answer Alef developed was to use the sides of the car as the wings, effectively turning it into a biplane, its body rotating 90 degrees after takeoff to move from upward to forward flight.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024