How to Use jetliner in a Sentence

jetliner

noun
  • If it could be made into ropes, a macroscale web would be able to snare a jetliner.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The first aircraft on the right is what looks like a civilian jetliner.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The video shows a puff of smoke emerging behind the jetliner.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
  • These are not just cracks, but canyons large enough to swallow a jetliner, or spires the size of monuments.
    — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
  • This is at least the second time this year a person was sucked into a jetliner engine and killed.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • Still, deciding to retrofit the old jetliners isn’t a slam-dunk.
    — Bloomberg.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The incident with the jetliner's engines is the second of its kind in as many months.
    — Jon Ostrower, CNN, 11 June 2017
  • Both plan to keep older jetliners in the fleet longer to bridge the gap, at the cost of flying less-efficient planes.
    — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • Are there any routes in the world that require a jetliner to fly at its highest elevation?
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 28 May 2017
  • The real showstopper here is the jetliner vistas from the rooftop pool and terrace, with views that stretched to the ocean.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2026
  • When the occasional jetliner lands, gates block the road until the plane passes.
    — James R. Carroll, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The last deadly crash of a civilian jetliner in the country was in 2010.
    — NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The fire expanded quickly, causing control of the jetliner to be lost.
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 10 June 2018
  • The goal is to spur growth with jetliners that avoid hubs and link smaller cities on routes that aren't properly matched to today's aircraft.
    — Julie Johnsson, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
  • Onlookers in winter coats and rain gear peered past the fence hoping for a glimpse of the familiar blue-and-white jetliner.
    — Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2017
  • Three of the asteroids are about the size of a commercial jetliner, and the largest is 170 feet long.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Shoegaze was everywhere this year, surging like a wave of crushed glass and soaring like a jetliner gleaming in the light of the setting sun.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Spy equipment the size of a jetliner exploded in seven miles of 50-foot deep water.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • China’s last deadly crash of a civilian jetliner was in 2010.
    — Ken Moritsugu, ajc, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The point was always the helicopter and the personal jetliner.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 July 2016
  • The tears—which had been more frequent since the news Sunday night that the terrorists had shot and killed the jetliner’s pilot—stopped.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The report is likely to serve as an opening shot in the coming battle among states and cities to land Boeing’s next jetliner.
    — Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2018
  • All 12 people on the commuter plane and 22 passengers on the jetliner were killed.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • About fifteen hundred years ago, the monks carved two statues of the Buddha, each as big as a jetliner, into the porous stone.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • American has about 255 of the workhorse jetliners in its fleet that are near the two-decade mark where maintenance costs soar.
    — From Staff Reports, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Both men aboard the Cessna and all 135 aboard the PSA jetliner died.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2019
  • Salem al-Hazmi would join his brother aboard the jetliner that crashed into the western façade of the Pentagon.
    — Mike Kelly, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Ryanair said Belarusian flight controllers told the pilots there was a bomb threat against the jetliner and ordered it to land in Minsk.
    — NBC News, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Ryanair said Belarusian flight controllers told the pilots that there was a bomb threat against the jetliner and ordered them to land in Minsk.
    — Frank Miles, Fox News, 25 May 2021
  • Then, and immediately, the place sounded like a jetliner was landing next door on Franklin Field.
    — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026

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