airliner

Example Sentences

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At first he thought it was a jet airliner, but the bright light formed a spiral shape and quickly grew bigger.

From Washington Post

But even if not, modern diesel locomotives haul far more people with fewer emissions than conventional cars or airliners.

From Seattle Times

Youth has its obvious advantages, and I don’t think many people would be comfortable seeing a 90-year-old pilot step into the cockpit of a commercial airliner, or an 85-year-old police officer chasing a burglary suspect.

From Los Angeles Times

He even symbolically “raffled off” the plane, which would be expensive to convert back into a normal airliner.

From Seattle Times

The system in question is one on commercial airliners and other smaller planes called the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, or TCAS.

From Seattle Times