layover

Example Sentences

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Need to store your luggage somewhere on a layover or before or after your flight so you can explore?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

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

From Slate • Mar. 30, 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

But this is my third time back in Chicago as an adult, and the first that feels like more than a long layover — the first that’s starting to stitch itself into something like permanence.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

The following evening they board a Pan Am flight to London, where after a five-hour layover they will board a second flight to Calcutta, via Tehran and Bombay.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri