How to Use jetliner in a Sentence
jetliner
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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 -
The jetliner in question was less than seven years old, according to aviation website planespotters.net.
— Trefor Moss, WSJ, 15 May 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 -
The bloc compounded the issue with below-market loans for the planemaker's marquee A350 jetliner.
— chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2018 -
Australian investigators who led the joint search for the jetliner dismissed that theory and have defended their belief that the plane's disappearance was due to an accident.
— Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 May 2018 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
China’s last deadly crash of a civilian jetliner was in 2010.
— Ken Moritsugu, ajc, 21 Mar. 2022 -
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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