plane

Example Sentences

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Attendants ultimately had to tell Lyonne the plane wouldn’t be going anywhere until the actor got off, to which she reportedly obliged.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

With no certainty that jet fuel prices will return to pre-war lows, chief executives are having to rethink expansion plans and plane orders.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Passengers are stuck sitting in a plane with tens of thousands of gallons of fuel in its wings hoping the worst doesn’t happen, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

But the underlying fact — that there were two people on the plane — required no source inside the Pentagon to divine.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

It could have been the plane that carried mail between Nome and Anchorage.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell