Explore Airplane through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like aeroplane or plane. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Airplane meaning
- A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
- A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth.
Using Airplane
- The main meaning on this page is: A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings. | A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth.
- Useful related words include: aeroplane, plane, heavier-than-air craft.
- In the example corpus, airplane often appears in combinations such as: an airplane, the airplane, airplane mode.
Context around Airplane
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Airplane
- In this selection, "airplane" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, electric, flight, sure, mode, windows and hangar stand out and add context to how "airplane" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1980 movie airplane and a commercial airplane has crossed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "airplane" sits close to words such as balancing, brains and commanding, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with airplane
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Airplane Mode is displayed on an iPhone. (7 words)
A Hungarian father built a tiny house in the shape of an airplane for his daughter. (16 words)
To turn on Airplane Mode, swipe down from the top of your screen and tap on the airplane icon. (19 words)
That amount included the direct cost to Boeing of redesigning the airplane and the expense of additional pilot training, all of which would have been borne by Boeing’s airline customers, making the MAX a much less attractive airplane, the report said. (42 words)
Why can people eat with no mask in an airplane – inches, not six feet, from strangers – but cannot eat in a California restaurant, which is so much bigger than the inside of an airplane, while sitting six feet from others? (40 words)
Emotional support animals running wild in the aisles, rogue travelers pretending to be airplane pilots and drunken passengers causing emergency landings: last year was defined by some pretty dodgy airplane passenger behavior. (32 words)
Why can people eat with no mask in an airplane – inches, not six feet, from strangers – but cannot eat in a California restaurant, which is so much bigger than the inside of an airplane, while sitting six feet from others? (40 words)
Airplane! and The Naked Gun Leslie Nielsen (right) in the role that established him as a comedic actor: Dr. Rumack in 1980 movie Airplane! (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
To turn on Airplane Mode, swipe down from the top of your screen and tap on the airplane icon.
Universal in flight airplane phone holder mount for $12.97 on Amazon allows you to easily clip your phone onto an airplane seat for hands-free convenience.
You can also check that Airplane Mode isn’t enabled on your watch by opening Control Center (swipe up from bottom of screen) and making sure airplane mode is off (green).
Why Airplane Windows Are Rounded: The Surprising Truth Discover the fascinating reason behind the rounded edges of airplane windows.
Ajdovščina - Electric airplane Velis Electro made by ultra light plane developer Pipistrel is the first fully electric airplane in the world to have received a type certificate.
Collectively known as fleet support services, these activities and services begin prior to airplane delivery and continue throughout the operational life of the airplane.
Emotional support animals running wild in the aisles, rogue travelers pretending to be airplane pilots and drunken passengers causing emergency landings: last year was defined by some pretty dodgy airplane passenger behavior.
I could have an absolutely super ship or soldier or airplane, but at some point, that ship, soldier, or airplane is going to take a hit.
Nepalese Personnel wearing protective suits work by an airplane for disinfection after Nepalese evacuees from China got off the airplane at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal.
So, they rented an airplane hangar at Burbank Airport, which was maybe about five miles away and just stuck a bunch of desks in this airplane hangar.
Why can people eat with no mask in an airplane – inches, not six feet, from strangers – but cannot eat in a California restaurant, which is so much bigger than the inside of an airplane, while sitting six feet from others?
That amount included the direct cost to Boeing of redesigning the airplane and the expense of additional pilot training, all of which would have been borne by Boeing’s airline customers, making the MAX a much less attractive airplane, the report said.
Airplane! and The Naked Gun Leslie Nielsen (right) in the role that established him as a comedic actor: Dr. Rumack in 1980 movie Airplane!
And second, the thrust from the propulsion system must exceed the drag of the airplane for the airplane to accelerate.
First, the thrust from the propulsion system must balance the drag of the airplane when the airplane is cruising.
A commercial airplane has crossed the Atlantic Ocean without the use of fossil fuels for the first time ever.
Again, this year their focus was Boeing, and more specifically, its decision to stall development of a new commercial passenger airplane until the next decade.
A Hungarian father built a tiny house in the shape of an airplane for his daughter.
Airplane Mode is displayed on an iPhone.
Amundsen says the new facility will allow the program to train other vocations as well, including EV tech and airplane technicians.
Common combinations with airplane
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an airplane 45×
- the airplane 43×
- airplane mode 18×
- airplane and 16×
- airplane is 7×
- on airplane 6×
- airplane to 6×
- airplane in 5×
- airplane for 5×
- jefferson airplane 5×