How to Use flight path in a Sentence

flight path

noun
  • No other planes were on their flight path.
  • From the meeting spot, the photo group would end up right under the flight path of the cranes.
    Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The noisy planes were not so welcome to the people living along the flight path.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • An initial search was set up based on the flight path, the pilot's cellphone pings and the Life360 app.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Had everything gone to plan, the flight path would have sat just south of the building.
    Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • It was designed this way to get around the restrictions of the site being on the flight path for LAX.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2022
  • For starters, the MLM is one of the best devices for giving flight path feedback on your shots.
    John Thompson, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
  • It’s also sunk deep into the ground as the venue sits right in the middle of the flight path to LAX, which is about three miles to the west.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The flight path, according to fllightaware.com, showed the plane making the straight shot west from Arizona.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • After liftoff, the rocket will tear past the speed of sound, and near the top of its flight path, will detach from the capsule.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Carbajal told the paper the crew wouldn't have spotted him if their flight path hadn't gone by the camp.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 22 July 2021
  • Devitt's house is under a flight path, right near O'Hare.
    Dana Kozlov, CBS News, 18 July 2023
  • Their volatility makes a fruit fly’s flight path seem staid.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 11 May 2022
  • If all goes to plan, the collision will redirect the space rock and alter its flight path.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Housing remains the main event as to this year’s inflation flight path.
    Sean Hanlon, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Aubrey, boasting a consistent strike and flight path on his kicks, has emerged as the kicker to beat in training camp.
    Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This might have meant upgrading the radio controls, or sending the drones on a pre-programmed flight path.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • In the Hawaiian Airlines case, weather officials told media, there were storms in the flight path.
    Hannah Sampson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Now, scientists have been able to precisely map the flight path of an asteroid for the first time and trace it back to its origin point.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 May 2021
  • This result meant the top of the building intersected with planes' east-west flight paths to a nearby airport.
    Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • It’ll also be equipped with Toptracer, a technology seen on TV that traces the flight path of golf balls.
    Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Irving sat down with Usher to discuss his career’s flight path.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The ministry said the drones lost control and deviated from their flight path and were shot down by the Russian military.
    David L. Stern, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Having a clearer idea of what is coming up in the flight path allows faster and more efficient decisions to be made about the flight.
    Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Perseverance then rolled away from the flight path, and the helicopter got its first taste of Martian sunshine.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 19 Apr. 2021
  • At the peak of its flight path, Unity experienced a few minutes of weightlessness and looked out into the black skies of the cosmos.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 11 July 2021
  • The flight path suggests North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile.
    Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Miles extended his index finger but then paused as if trying to figure out the best flight path.
    David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • These areas are generally free of branches, giving the bats a clear flight path.
    Shannon Sims, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But details of the plane’s flight path had already been revealed a day earlier by Flightradar24, a flight data service.
    New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022

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