jet airplane
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of jet airplane
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Six people are presumed dead after a jet airplane crashed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego County on Thursday morning amid dense fog, but investigators have yet to release the names of those aboard.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
“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
If a jet airplane with a silent engine could be built, how much noise would it make?
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
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