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Examples of flight line in a Sentence
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On the flight line, under a somber gray sky, everything and everyone had a place.
—Kenny Holston, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The collision happened at the south end of the EAA AirVenture flight line at Wittman Regional Airport.
—Michelle Acevedo, NBC News, 29 July 2023
Brandon, an aviation electrician third class, died by suicide on June 25, 2018, on the flight line at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.
—Christina Fuoco-Karasinski, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
Hours later, the man walked undetected onto the flight line by slipping through a fence designed to restrict entry.
—CBS News, 7 Feb. 2023
The show, which begins Friday and runs through Sunday and is free to the public, will feature performances from some of the military’s most cutting-edge aircraft and top civilian aerobatic flyers, along with dozens of aircraft, both new and old, on the flight line to view up close and personal.
—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
The ceremony to stand up the first Space Force field command, Space Operations Command, or SpOC, took place among a socially distanced crowd of some 300 at Hangar 140 on the flight line of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.
—Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2020
And in February 2021, a man got through the military checkpoint onto the installation, then through additional fenced secure areas to gain access to the flight line and climb into a C-40, which is the military’s 737-equivalent aircraft used to fly government officials.
—Lindsay Whitehurst and Stefanie Dazio, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
In February 2021, a man got through the military checkpoint onto the installation, then through additional fenced secure areas to gain access to the flight line and climb into a C-40, which is the military's 737-equivalent aircraft used to fly government officials.
—CBS News, 7 Feb. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1943, in the meaning defined above
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“Flight line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20line. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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