How to Use jetliner in a Sentence

jetliner

noun
  • Last but not least: Meet 747, who fans joke is the size of the wide-body jetliner.
    National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Both men aboard the Cessna and all 135 aboard the PSA jetliner died.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2019
  • The first aircraft on the right is what looks like a civilian jetliner.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The last deadly crash of a civilian jetliner in the country was in 2010.
    NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Three of the asteroids are about the size of a commercial jetliner, and the largest is 170 feet long.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The jetliner was cruising at about 595 mph before the dive.
    Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein/bloomberg, Time, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Both plan to keep older jetliners in the fleet longer to bridge the gap, at the cost of flying less-efficient planes.
    Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • These are not just cracks, but canyons large enough to swallow a jetliner, or spires the size of monuments.
    Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
  • The tears—which had been more frequent since the news Sunday night that the terrorists had shot and killed the jetliner’s pilot—stopped.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • This is at least the second time this year a person was sucked into a jetliner engine and killed.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • All 12 people on the commuter plane and 22 passengers on the jetliner were killed.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Still, deciding to retrofit the old jetliners isn’t a slam-dunk.
    Bloomberg.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • In 2014, pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine fired on and destroyed a Malaysia Airlines jetliner.
    Jennifer Jacobs, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The jetliner dispute is the longest since the WTO’s inception.
    Josh Zumbrun and Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Shoegaze was everywhere this year, surging like a wave of crushed glass and soaring like a jetliner gleaming in the light of the setting sun.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But when jetliners hit the scene, rail travel languished.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2023
  • American has about 255 of the workhorse jetliners in its fleet that are near the two-decade mark where maintenance costs soar.
    From Staff Reports, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • About fifteen hundred years ago, the monks carved two statues of the Buddha, each as big as a jetliner, into the porous stone.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The report is likely to serve as an opening shot in the coming battle among states and cities to land Boeing’s next jetliner.
    Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2018
  • Ryanair said Belarusian flight controllers told the pilots there was a bomb threat against the jetliner and ordered it to land in Minsk.
    NBC News, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Ryanair said Belarusian flight controllers told the pilots that there was a bomb threat against the jetliner and ordered them to land in Minsk.
    Frank Miles, Fox News, 25 May 2021
  • Salem al-Hazmi would join his brother aboard the jetliner that crashed into the western façade of the Pentagon.
    Mike Kelly, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Spy equipment the size of a jetliner exploded in seven miles of 50-foot deep water.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • That’s as if four big jetliners crashed every seven days.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The fire expanded quickly, causing control of the jetliner to be lost.
    John Cox, USA TODAY, 10 June 2018
  • The partner of a member of the crew on a jetliner that crashed in Cuba and a friend comfort each other in Mexico City on Friday.
    Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 19 May 2018
  • China’s last deadly crash of a civilian jetliner was in 2010.
    Ken Moritsugu, ajc, 21 Mar. 2022
  • That gap could narrow if Beijing expands its levies on Boeing’s 737 jetliner, the largest source of profit for the plane maker.
    Bloomberg, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
  • The Senate committee’s report comes a month after the FAA lifted its ban on the jetliner, which had been grounded for 20 months.
    Author: Ian Duncan, Lori Aratani, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2020
  • In that case, maybe having to operate fewer jetliner’s could work out in Ryanair’s favor.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 22 July 2024

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