mainline

Example Sentences

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The service is installed on more than 300 of those planes but just 18 of its mainline jets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The genius of hit songs, beyond technical artistry—and the vagaries of timing—is the ability to mainline emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

There had been nothing going out on the West Coast mainline and hardly any announcements, she said.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

The tax burden would be disproportionately felt by progressive mainline Protestant churches, Black evangelical churches and immigrant-majority Catholic and Protestant congregations, not to mention immigrant-majority mosques and temples.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

Of a student body of 5,700, about 400 participate in one of three evangelical student groups—more than the number of active mainline Protestants, the campus chaplain says.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times