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
• If it could be made into ropes, a macroscale web would be able to snare a jetliner.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 18 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The incident with the jetliner's engines is the second of its kind in as many months.
  — Jon Ostrower, CNN, 11 June 2017
• 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
• Monarch is a big British customer for Boeing Co.’s new 737 Max jetliner.
  — Robert Wall, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Onlookers in winter coats and rain gear peered past the fence hoping for a glimpse of the familiar blue-and-white jetliner.
  — Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2017
• The goal is to spur growth with jetliners that avoid hubs and link smaller cities on routes that aren't properly matched to today's aircraft.
  — Julie Johnsson, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• 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
• Are there any routes in the world that require a jetliner to fly at its highest elevation?
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 28 May 2017
• 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
• This technical feat is proof, according to SpaceX, that Starship can be reused—with fast turnaround times—more like a jetliner than the throwaway rockets that have been used by past generations.
  — Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2024
• The company's design can be adapted to various aircraft types, including freighters, jetliners, and tankers – the latter being of special interest to the US Air Force.
  — New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024