How to Use airliner in a Sentence

airliner

noun
  • Gone are the days when an airliner would have a lounge or even a piano bar.
    — New Atlas, 16 Dec. 2025
  • No, this year the smoke was blown away by a British budget airliner.
    — David MacK, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2025
  • As the crow flies, a commercial airliner could make that trip in about half a day.
    — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2017
  • All-in-all, the Airbus and airliners have had a very close call.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Again, the wide-body airliner was tailored to his lavish tastes.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 June 2023
  • Crash detectives, at least the ones who do airliners, haven’t been busy.
    — Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
  • This is not a commercial airliner that has crashed.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
  • Petty tells me before pulling up to a grouping of six airliners, their paint bleached by the sun.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2017
  • There have been rare instances of holes opening in the fuselages of airliners.
    — David Koenig, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The airliner was at 1,800 feet and the drone was eye level with that plane.
    — cleveland, 17 June 2021
  • The cabin of an airliner can be chaotic and loud, so why add to the confusion?
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Gadhafi is said to have thanked Masud for his role in blowing up the airliner.
    — Darcie Moran and Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Intrado’s faulty threshold is not like the faulty rivet that leads to the crash of an airliner.
    — James Somers, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Video showed a large plume of smoke and flames erupt as the airliner landed and continued down the the runway.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The airliners that rolled out of its Seattle plant were well designed, safe, and profitable.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • That is higher than most passenger airliners cruise.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 June 2026
  • Damage to the exterior of the wide-body airliner has since been repaired.
    — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 6 July 2022
  • The economy seats on these are slightly wider than the Airbus airliner seats.
    — Michael Boyd, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The White House was deciding whether to shoot down a hijacked airliner.
    — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2020
  • More victims have now died from the toxic fallout than from the impact of the two airliners and the collapse of the towers.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026
  • Airlines — Rising oil price sent shares of airliners lower.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The plane could carry up to 80 passengers at the speed of sound, about twice the speed of today's airliners.
    — Joann Muller, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
  • France and Britain were collaborating on a new kind of airliner that would fly at twice the speed of sound and shrink the globe.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Yet even as headlines remind us that airliners can still crash, commercial flying has never been safer.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The airliner was hit the hardest by last month’s CrowdStrike outage.
    — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 Aug. 2024
  • There are many lessons to be learned from the Max, many of which should help make the next generation of airliners safer and more robust.
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Today more than 58% of commercial airliners are leased by airlines rather than owned.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The engines remain offline as the airliner is pushed back from the gate by a vehicle called a ground tug that's attached to the nose gear.
    — David Szondy june 07, New Atlas, 7 June 2026
  • The seats are arranged on the concrete floor of a TSA firing range as if aboard an airliner.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 17 May 2018
  • Ukraine is home to the Antonov plant, which once manufactured the largest and most powerful freight airliners in the world.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2020

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