How to Use flight path in a Sentence

flight path

noun

• No other planes were on their flight path.
• No place near any kind of flight path is reliably quiet anymore.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2018
• Wind, altitude, even the humidity can affect the ball's flight path.
  — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 15 June 2018
• The flight paths took aircraft over Keller, creating a noise nuisance for its residents.
  — Sandra Baker, star-telegram, 30 Apr. 2018
• But local battles over airport and airplane noise continue for communities in flight paths.
  — Mindy Fetterman, baltimoresun.com, 16 May 2018
• Gates said, mimicking the flight path of Trump’s helicopter with his hand, eliciting another round of laughs.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 18 May 2018
• The appearance of a bird, and then a dragonfly, caused them to jerk their heads in unison and follow the flight path in the sky until the winged creatures disappeared from view.
  — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Zaharie's suspected suicide might explain an oddity about the plane's final flight path: that unexpected turn to the left.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
• The team is now planning to expand their research to other critters to examine possible connections between the genetics of stick insect species and bird flight paths.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
• Thunderstorms are especially troublesome for summer flights, sometimes flaring up out of nowhere to block flight paths and cause delays that can quickly ripple across the region or country.
  — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 26 June 2018
• As a result of that ruling, the two sides reached an agreement to change some of the flight paths while the FAA conducted expanded public outreach about other routes.
  — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
• Olympic National Park is one of America's only wilderness areas that's uncrossed by highways and far from most commercial flight paths.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2018
• The system reduces variation in takeoff and landing routes, which increases air-traffic efficiency, but also concentrates the noise below the flight paths.
  — Chris Berdik, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
• The wind and the weather, or the flight path of a bird—a bird!
  — Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• 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
• In 2015, the two sides worked out a deal to change a flight path that was a bit too close for Taiwan’s comfort.
  — Eryk Michael Smith, Fox News, 4 May 2024
• 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
• Airlines follow flight paths that in some cases date back to the 1930s.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Experts say that shifting the flight path of this small fleet of planes ever so slightly could make a big difference.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2024
• The home sits directly underneath several flight paths, according to the news outlet.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 15 June 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024