How to Use wide-body in a Sentence

wide-body

noun
  • The front portion of the wide-body aircraft appeared to lie flat on the tarmac.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
  • Then the wide-body version was introduced, with a little more room for legs and elbows.
    — Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Chrysler styling is into the wide-body mode these days—witness the upcoming Viper.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 4 July 2023
  • Aeroflot, the flagship carrier, turned to Iran to service its wide-body planes.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Head Razzle Dazzle skis have eye-catching graphics on wide-body skis.
    — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The money matters, even if a wide-body contract has never enabled a player to buy the other part of the dream.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 28 July 2024
  • American itself is adding more premium seats to both its narrow-body and wide-body planes, which already have screens on them.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The horizontal bunks will be installed on existing wide-body aircraft.
    — Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Boeing scored more orders for its 787 Dreamliner wide-body long-haul aircraft.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Core to the facility are four new gates for wide-body planes, bringing the total number of gates in the terminal to 16.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Furthermore, the airline is adding a new product to its main cabin that lets customers buy a row of seats that converts to a couch on some of its wide-body aircraft.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The United Arab Emirates placed orders for 28 wide-body aircraft, too.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Emirates operates one of the world’s largest wide-body fleets and is a major customer of Boeing and Airbus.
    — Dan Murphy,natasha Turak, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
  • First introduced in 2007, the four-engine, wide-body plane came onto the scene with mixed reactions.
    — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2023
  • Lufthansa will also retrofit existing wide-body aircraft, such as the Boeing 747.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Shape Two common shapes are wide-body (which looks square-ish) and elongated (which looks rectangular), says Coughlin.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 22 July 2024
  • Also, American will not offer free Wi-Fi on jets that don’t have the right equipment, like some of its older wide-body planes.
    — Dennis Green, AFAR Media, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Designed for the commercial jet market, the Jetliner will create a niche between single-aisle jets and wide-bodies.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 17 May 2023
  • At least one member arranged for the purchase of a wide-body Lamborghini Urus worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Still uncertain is whether Europe will yield to Chinese pressure to assemble wide-body jets in China.
    — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Critically, its long runways can handle the wide-body jets typically used for transporting cargo.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • The terminal will have 31 gates, eight of which can accommodate wide-body aircraft used on international routes.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Moments later, the plane’s left wing reportedly caught fire and an engine detached, sending the wide-body freighter crashing to the ground and erupting into a fireball.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Some of American’s older Boeing wide-bodies won’t have the service for free but will still have Wi-Fi available.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Demand for larger jets, bullish bets on travel growth and strains on planemakers’ ability to meet demand for single-aisle aircraft this decade is fueling a surge in wide-body orders.
    — Danny Lee, Fortune Asia, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Unlike wide-body planes, narrow-body jets are sold in larger numbers and, thus, need to be churned out rapidly; Boeing and Airbus aim to produce dozens every month.
    — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • As a major hub for long-haul flights operated by wide-body aircraft, these planes can only be diverted to large airports capable of handling their size and requirements.
    — Guglielmo Lulli, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Over the years, the 747’s supremacy was gradually supplanted by more fuel-efficient twin-engine wide-body planes.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
  • The 747-8 is the final iteration of the legendary 747, the world’s first wide-body airliner.
    — Clive Irving, Vanity Fair, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The Dreamliner is a wide-body jet that is more fuel efficient than many other aircraft used for long trips, in part because of its lightweight composite construction.
    — James Glanz, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024

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