How to Use aeroplane in a Sentence

aeroplane

noun
  • Added to this are rapid-fire guns and a constant lookout from the ship and from aeroplane scouts.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
  • That keeps the contents safe in aeroplane holds and on delivery lorries.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2020
  • No distractions, no aeroplanes, no noise, no traffic.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Helping him is a staff of ten full-time aeroplane builders, assisted by a group of volunteers.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • So the average flyer takes eight return flights and aeroplanes rack up seven trillion air miles each year.
    — Keith Baker, Quartz, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Intensive farms soak up scarce water and fly their produce around the world in aeroplanes that spew out carbon dioxide.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Her child looks up at the aeroplane in the sky, flying through dusk, through twilight, flying through the beginning of the end of the day.
    — Deborah Levy, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But an aeroplane is simply an aviong, from the Portuguese avião rather than the German Flugzeug.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Electric aeroplanes Most electric plane designs are grounded on the drawing board, but there are some flight-ready aircraft.
    — Keith Baker, Quartz, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The Spirit of the Lord kept butting in, sending dreams in which he was saved from crashing aeroplanes or warned of coming damnation.
    — The Economist, 21 May 2020
  • One shows Kais Saied floating above the Tunis skyline surrounded by a heart drawn in the sky by an aeroplane.
    — 1843, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Indian airlines are already placing orders for record numbers of aeroplanes.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Last month Jack and 49 others boarded a transport aeroplane and parachuted onto an island.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Only 3% of Indians have ever been on an aeroplane; only one in 45 owns a car or lorry.
    — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • For its occupants, the aeroplane constitutes the entire universe.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • On an aeroplane; all things Are brought into their deep relativity People.
    — Jonathan Michael Majors, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • On the sixteenth day of August, O'Brien was in a fleet of British aeroplanes that set forth to repel an attack.
    — Kitty Conley, Post-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The actual time aloft in the third and crowning test that demonstrated his theory that an aeroplane can compete with the sea-bird, was one minute and tweenty-one seconds.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • The technology can fuel any form of transport, including yachts, ships, ferries, aeroplanes, trains, cars, buses, and trucks.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Archaeologists recently dug up a gigantic flying killer dinosaur as big as an aeroplane.
    — Jasper Hamill, Fox News, 25 May 2017
  • His opponent in the coming election, Moussa Mustafa Moussa, chose an aeroplane.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Will Boeing continue to produce and design great aeroplanes, well-put together, reliable, for the customer base?
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Since the vortex shape and position change with altitude and temperature, as well as the velocity and weight of the leading aeroplane, so does the location of the sweet spot.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In the days leading up to Lebaran the country’s cities normally disgorge their residents, who cram onto buses, ferries and aeroplanes, laden with gifts and new clothes, on their way home for the festivities.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2020
  • Still, gazing out of their aeroplane windows, returning holidaymakers may notice some of the things that hold their curious little continent together.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Admiral Davidson described how once-obscure rocks controlled by China now bristle with radar arrays and electronic warfare kit and are studded with aeroplane hangars and bunkers.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Vincenzo Montella was a diminutive Italian winger who nailed a celebration early in his career, out-stretching his arms and running around miming an aeroplane.
    — SI.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Chris Adamson remembers being sent out to local hardware shops to find brooms of various bristle strengths, and asked to track down a specific kind of elastic used to power the propeller of a model aeroplane.
    — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Successful flight in Mars’s thin atmosphere would earn the country that invented aeroplanes the additional honour of being first to fly an extraterrestrial aircraft.
    — The Economist, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Boeing, an American aeroplane-maker, claims that Bombardier used government subsidies to sell its new C-series airliners below cost.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017

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