layover

Example Sentences

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He initially walked by but returned to check it out on a two-hour layover.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

There is just one direct flight per day from Glasgow to New York and with so few seats left, the cost is more than double travelling via a layover in Amsterdam.

From BBC • May 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

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

Every layover night in Harlem, I ran and explored new places.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey