jetliner

[ jet-lahy-ner ]

/ ˈdʒɛtˌlaɪ nər /

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noun

a commercial jet plane for carrying passengers.

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Origin of jetliner

First recorded in 1945–50; jet¹ + (air)liner

Words nearby jetliner

jet gun, jet-hop, Jethro, jet injection, jet lag, jetliner, jetpack, jet pipe, jet plane, jetport, jet-propelled

How to use jetliner in a sentence

Fisette noted that the Pentagon is in Arlington County, and it was largely the county’s firefighters and emergency medical teams that put out the fire caused by the jetliner crash and provided medical assistance to survivors of the crash.
LGBTQ community shared nation’s grief after 9/11 attacks|Lou Chibbaro Jr.|September 9, 2021|Washington Blade
Lukashenko last month sparked international outrage for forcing down a civilian jetliner flying over Belarus last month to arrest an opposition journalist, Roman Protasevich, who was on board.
Putin questions U.S. prosecution of Capitol rioters, saying mob carried only ‘political requests’|Isabelle Khurshudyan|June 4, 2021|Washington Post
Aircraft fuel consumption varies and has improved over the years, but large jetliners can burn anywhere from 600 to 750 gallons of fuel an hour.
Travel Is Coming Back, and Artificial Intelligence May Be Planning Your Next Flight|Alana Semuels/Seattle|May 25, 2021|Time
Tracing the trail of errors that doomed those passengers leads back to 2010, when the other member of commercial aviation’s “duopoly,” Europe’s Airbus, unveiled the fuel-efficient A320neo narrow-body jetliner.
Can Boeing recover?|Tripti Lahiri|September 25, 2020|Quartz

The Boeing jetliner had 295 people on board and was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Latest News on Malaysian Airliner Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine|The Daily Beast|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Jetliner bombing plot August 2006 Twenty-four suspects arrested for plotting to blow up 10 U.S. jetliners with liquid explosives.
Forty-Five Foiled Terror Plots Since 9/11|John Avlon|September 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST
That's a record dating back to the advent of the jetliner itself.
What Pilots Fear|Patrick Smith|September 3, 2009|DAILY BEAST
All she'd lose was one day, and it might be a bit of a vacation if she enjoyed flying in a jetliner at sixty thousand feet.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith
Nurse Gloria Farrow waved at me from the ramp of the jetliner, and I ran forward to collect her baggage.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith

British Dictionary definitions for jetliner

jetliner

/ (ˈdʒɛtˌlaɪnə) /

noun

a commercial airliner powered by jet engines

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