Example sentences for: airplanes

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

  • In 1981, at the dawn of the stealth era, James Fallows warned in National Defense that "airplanes, tanks, ships and missiles have grown too complex, expensive and delicate to be useful in warfare or credible for deterrent purposes."

  • The first airplanes from the US began to arrive in the mid-1930s, and with them came a bevy of notorious visitors, from movie stars to presidents, writers to millionaires.

  • 5 million, the highest ever assessed against an air carrier, because of maintenance lapses the agency alleges, including continuing to fly 17 airplanes for two years and 41,000 flights past the time when detailed inspections of the cargo-door and crew areas were required.

  • Chiang, they believed, was hoarding everything from rice to airplanes in the struggle against the Chinese Communists and leaving the Allies to worry about the Japanese.

  • Worse still for anti-meliorists, we are clearly creatures who have long tinkered with ourselves, using all manner of technologies from clothing to telescopes to computers to airplanes.


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