chartering

Example Sentences

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Prices in both regions surged this week, along with the cost of chartering tankers to move the gas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

The team has to coordinate between two airline partners, chartering a Boeing 757 from Delta and a Boeing 737-800 from United, to handle travel parties of sometimes more than 100 in all.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

The barrister for the investors suggested to the court that some of the proceeds had been spent on "chartering yachts and all sorts of jollifications".

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024

Before the war, the sheikh was sometimes criticized for his lavish choices, like chartering a private jet to attend the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

This time our hero did not alight at a frequented hostelry, but put up at an inn where the country people were wont to go, and chartering a room there, only went out at night.

From The Strange Story of Rab R?by by J?kai, M?r