Example sentences for: klm

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

  • In the KLM pilot's case, what linguists call the present progressive aspect, which is expressed in English by a verb's -ing form, can be expressed in Dutch by the equivalent of at plus the verb's infinitive.

  • On March 27, 1977, the pilot of a KLM 747 radioed We are now at take-off, as his plane began rolling down the runway in Tenerife, the Canary Islands.

  • The KLM pilot's otherwise perplexing use of the very nonstandard phrase at take-off, rather than the more standard phrase taking off, appears to have been a subtle form of what linguists call code-switching, a process in which bilingual or multilingual speakers inadvertently switch back and forth from one of their languages to another in the course of a conversation.

  • Perhaps the most important part of the museum relates the history of KLM the national airline of the Netherlands, which is one of the oldest airline companies in the world.


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