jet airplane
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of jet airplane
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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“The jet airplane changed the place. We’re not as close to each other as we had been.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2022
A woman looks on as a business jet airplane takes off in Kyiv, Ukraine September 17, 2021.
From Reuters • Feb. 24, 2022
"It was like the noise of a jet airplane or something," added Gerald.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2021
Nanook knows that the modern world exists; in fact, one of the film’s most vivid shots has him flat on his back in the snow watching jet airplane vapor trails in the sky.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2019
The object was no jet airplane because there was no sound.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
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