How to Use jumbo jet in a Sentence

jumbo jet

noun
  • Imagine a chainsaw at full gas or a jumbo jet taking off.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The jumbo jet would make the world smaller in the same way that railroads and ocean liners had in the century prior.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • The company that once played the sporty game to invent the jumbo jet couldn’t seem to make new versions of its bread-and-butter mid-range aircraft.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • The administration has spent the last year retrofitting the Qatari jumbo jet for presidential use.
    — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • The company revolutionized air travel with the 747 jumbo jet in the 1960s and played a key role in the Space Race.
    — John Pacenti, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The world’s largest operating steam locomotive will chug through Northern California next month, its glossy black front emitting bursts of steam and its frame stretching more than half the length of a jumbo jet.
    — Brooke Park, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Emirates, the airline of the United Arab Emirates, is the first company to buy the Airbus A3XX, the new generation of jumbo jet airliner; an order is placed for 10 of the huge craft.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
  • Today’s questions come from Ian Bogost’s essay in the July issue of The Atlantic—about the grand history of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet and, now, its final descent into obsolescence.
    — Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • In 2012, the space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a jumbo jet, sailed over the New York City skyline on its final flight before going on display as part of the USS Intrepid Museum.
    — ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The carbon-fiber aircraft could perform such feats of aeronautical endurance while running solely on renewable energy and batteries because of a 236-foot (72-meter) wingspan—comparable to a Boeing 747 jumbo jet’s wings—covered with more than 17,000 solar cells.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026

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