Example sentences for: airliner

How can you use “airliner” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • All 64 people aboard the airliner were killed, as were 125 people inside the Pentagon (70 civilians and 55 military service members).

  • It is possible that NORAD commanders would have ordered a shootdown in the absence of the authorization communicated by the Vice President, but given the gravity of the decision to shoot down a commercial airliner, and NORAD's caution that a mistake not be made, we view this possibility as unlikely.

  • The general says his plane had only seven minutes of fuel left when the military commandeered the control tower and cleared the commercial airliner to land.

  • Jarrah's objective was to crash his airliner into symbols of the American Republic, the Capitol or the White House.

  • To our knowledge none of them had ever flown an actual airliner before.


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