How to Use flight line in a Sentence

flight line

noun

• Cate Miller and Glen Gibbs, who would lead them to the flight line and back after a day in the air.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 6 July 2020
• The bonus for any visit to the Museum of Flight is the chance to gaze out on the flight line at Boeing Field.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
• The reptile wandered onto the base flight line, where it was scooped up and returned to the wild.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2019
• The gator likely came up through nearby swampland and travelled across the base golf course to reach the flight line.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2019
• My journey to the flight line started in my high-school library in the New York City borough of Queens.
  — Harry Stewart, WSJ, 2 July 2019
• When the company first reached space with a pair of pilots in 2018, Branson was on the flight line with his son watching.
  — Washington Post, 22 May 2021
• Out on the flight line at Randolph next to the T-1 bearing his name, McGee was mobbed by people wanting to pose with him for pictures.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• During the sit-down, he was given the call for duty and quickly pulled off his microphone to run across the flight line to his chopper.
  — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Jan. 2020
• Some of the fighter jets on the flight line had been moved farther down the runway, compared to images taken Tuesday before the blast.
  — Susan Blann, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2022
• The lake is situated out of the flight line of commercial aircraft, the silence of the place broken only by the gulls that nest on the cliffs on the backside of the island.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2019
• There were emergency responders, as well as the squadron commander, standing by on the flight line to meet her.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2020
• Su-34 aircraft at the Morozovsk base east of Ukraine had been moved to the flight line, the satellite photos show, a step that indicates a higher state of readiness.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
• My first tour of duty was to Okinawa as one of two women working on the flight line as an aircraft mechanic.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
• The 21-year-old sailor threw off the protective helmet everyone wears on the flight line and ran toward the spinning rear tail rotor of an HM-60S helicopter.
  — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021
• Yeager spoke to hundreds of soldiers standing in formation on the flight line at Los Alamitos Army Airfield.
  — Daniel Langhorne, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
• Military aircraft old and new are on display on the Miramar flight line, with many available for the public to sit inside and explore.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• Sometimes the families are in denial, right up until the moment they are brought to the flight line to watch the carry team move the transfer case holding the remains of their loved one from the military flight.
  — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 28 May 2022
• Hours later, the man walked undetected onto the flight line by slipping through a fence designed to restrict entry.
  — Robert Burns, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
• Chip Long, managing director of flight line operations, said in the memo.
  — Mary Schlangenstein, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
• Camp Humphreys houses an array of guard towers, tank training areas, and firing ranges, plus a flight line where Apache and Chinook helicopters are parked.
  — Time, 13 July 2018
• At Whiteman, security teams secure the base perimeter, control all access points, protect the flight line and hangars, and safeguard the aircraft's weapons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
• American Black Hawk helicopters swooped over the runway, attempting to frighten people away from the flight line.
  — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2021
• The only sounds that be heard on the flight line were the quiet commands of honor guards who carried the transfer cases, the hum of the C-17 Globemaster II aircraft that transported the fallen, and the occasional sob of a grieving mourner.
  — Aamer Madhani, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• Moving the 50 bombs would require dismantling the security systems and transiting them to a flight line under Turkish control.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2019
• Although this engine-start-by-explosion seems like an obsolete capability, B-52 bombers still have a nuclear mission and could end up on the flight line during a crisis, needing to take to their air in a hurry.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024