layover

Example Sentences

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But it wasn’t until the fall of 2022, during a layover at Miami airport, that things really accelerated.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

It was the summer of 2016, and my family and I were travelling back to the States from Bangladesh — an arduous 23-hour-long journey that was further extended by a 12+ hour layover in Istanbul.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

A 12-hour layover in Istanbul, a summer abroad in Paris, a weekend trip to Athens from London, a visit to a friend in Seoul.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Tuesday with a layover in Boston, and another that gave us one hour to change terminals in Houston and would get us home around 1 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

We boarded the bus in late afternoon and rode with-out incident to Selma, where I had a long layover before taking another bus into the state capital.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin