Words similar to airplane

Example sentences for: airplane

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

When the anchor men released the glider, it flew into the air like a model airplane launched by a rubber band.
If every new refinement since then in the quiet sapping of our national morale has earned a numerical "column," then by now, I estimate, we must be up somewhere close to "78 th column" (applied, maybe, to producers of the weekly network TV movies about bloody domestic mayhem) and "79 th column" (airplane passengers who bring carry-on luggage that they know won't fit into the overhead storage bins) or possibly even higher.
It is a contraction of gung-yeh ho-dzo , `industrial cooperation, 'and it caught on because it is easy to pronounce, as in 'Nam or the States . 'Nam by itself is no more derogatory or misleading than shortening airplane or telephone or gung-ho .
USA Today leads with the acquittal of Marine pilot Richard Ashby in connection with the deaths of 20 people that occurred when the airplane he was piloting struck an Italian ski lift in 1998.
The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground.