| 单词 | airplane |
| 例句 | If there’s a pregnant lady on an airplane, she’s named her unborn kid after me by the time the plane lands. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z On the first of June, airplanes flyover the city, extremely high, crawling through the stratus clouds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Much as I dream recurringly about shrinking babies, I dream that the sky is covered from horizon to horizon with rows of airplanes, dirigibles, rocket ships, flying bombs, their formations as even as stitches. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s hard to describe—hands reach upward and dozens of yellow crosses race across the ceiling like stars or airplanes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then an airplane droned in the distance, grew louder, then fainter, then louder again. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of the Brain Busters Club convened after work and on weekends to build elaborate model airplanes by hand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I think you mean, do I care?” she said, folding her homework sheet into a paper airplane. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “But then I would’ve had a probably fatal episode of deoxygenation in Amsterdam, and my body would have been shipped home in the cargo hold of an airplane,” I said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “It’s rising somewhere,” he answered, and then after a moment said, “Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He went away on the airplane and I said, “Mama, I hope he never comes back.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in the 1920s, when elsewhere in the world the menfolk took a break between wars to perfect the airplane and the automobile, a white man finally did set eyes on the okapi. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z An airplane went by overhead, invisible above the clouds. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As the war approached its peak, every single American military airplane in production was based fundamentally—and in many cases in specific detail—upon the research results and recommendations of the NACA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That was my first time on an airplane. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was my little dresser and the airplane models on top. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Why don't you ask me to step over instead of having one of these airplanes grab me?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The airplane comes clattering and roaring through the sky, and whatever might be lurking secretly up there in the great cloud-mountains goes running for cover at its approach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Man, you think if you was in that airplane right there and you jumped out into the water you’d survive? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The greatest test of the airplane’s new prowess—a nonstop flight through the turbulent skies over the Atlantic Ocean—remained to be achieved, though. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “The airplane was hit all over like a sieve, and I was wounded in the leg.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Now, I suppose you’re going to say, but, Mister Ibis, these people were primitives, they didn’t have radio controls and vitamin pills and jet airplanes.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Similarly, simple African villagers who have never left their remote homes may not be particularly surprised by their first sight of an airplane: it is outside their comprehension. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “He told me about his airplane,” said Andrius, pointing over my shoulder to the drawing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She wore it for the journey, zipping it all the way up in the humming interior of the airplane and then unzipping it as she left the airport building with Aunty Uju. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I wonder if Tris is watching it sweep across the pavement and gather in piles by the airplanes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A federal agency in Hampton sought women to fill a number of mathematical jobs having to do with airplanes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If he could not fight little boys, he thought, how could he ever become a soldier and fight the Americans with their airplanes and helicopters and bombs? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t understand how airplanes flew, and she didn’t understand how ships floated. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Somehow, I stumbled in my half-sleep across a runway, Mami holding on to me, to a bigger airplane taking us to New York City. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, placed time in chains, and carved highways through the stratosphere. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the case of the Koreans, one kind of deeply rooted legacy stood in the way of the very modern task of flying an airplane. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Benji stood in front of a large window and watched workers load suitcases into the belly of an airplane. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I drew him standing in our dining room, with Papa and his friends sitting around the table, launching paper airplanes at him. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I think they make those things so uncomfortable just to remind you there could always be something worse than a seat on an airplane, or an eternity in hell. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But there were no airplanes anywhere, nor any evidence of a landing strip. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I look out the rounded airplane window and marvel at the clouds. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z As government soldiers shelled and burned the countryside and airplanes strafed and bombed the villages, refugees moved south. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And Marina answered him: “They are running away to the front all the same, they are taking things into their own hands, and it will be worse, you understand, if they steal airplanes to go.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He is airsick, the poor man, and people do get nosebleeds in airplanes, the air is so dry and thin . . . and you ask him, weakly, if there is anything you can do to help. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She just stood with her face getting smaller and smaller, and when you couldn’t see the airplane anymore she went in the house and lay down on her bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z During her life, she flew more than 140 different types of airplanes, setting records for altitude, distance, and speed. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Inside each airplane, a bombardier peers through an aiming window and counts to twenty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We flew homework airplanes for two hours, daydreaming about who would find them and where they’d land and wondering if anyone would see them in flight, like we were seeing them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z But no airplane arrived that day, or the next day, or the next. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Between tournament fees, airplane tickets, hotel costs, and food, the average cost to compete in one World Cup competition was around $2,000, and there were eight World Cups a season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I give Leigh’s and Katherine’s kids a hundred airplane rides and piggybacks, or at least until I can’t stand up anymore. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It made Percy feel silly for being scared of airplane turbulence. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She and Levi had gone to the local Chevrolet dealer to fill out the entry form and pick up a copy of the official rules, which read like a familiarization manual for an airplane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The airplane landed steadily enough and ran up to the group. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My heart was beating as loud as an airplane engine. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will not board the airplane if you do not take it off for the security check.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z People were waiting to see how well Jesus protected Tata Price, now that he had to get by the same as everyone without outside help from the airplane or even women. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, he could call any other airplane and report the emergency. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z In fact, from the airplane all I’d seen were green fields. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I curved my hand like an airplane wing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z One day, I heard the sound of an airplane. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter what it took, I would get him to take me away from here in his airplane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the roadless North Slope had fewer wolves than it did before the gussaks erected their military bases and brought airplanes, snowmobiles, electricity, and jeeps to the Arctic. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m watching the same airplane as she is now. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Arthur published a War Department chart showing wing and tail markings of airplanes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z My mouth tasted horrible, and I tried to keep it shut for fear of poisoning the airplane. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I suppose one reason I didn’t feel lonely was that I had been flying airplanes by myself for nearly twenty years. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A gentleman had just checked out to catch an early airplane. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The drone of unseen airplanes seemed to come from everywhere. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He created a brand-new type of boat that featured a slick design and was powered by two water-cooled airplane engines. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It had a dynamic and strangely hot-headed young Henry wanting to rush out and buy a used single-engine airplane against the advice of his parents. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z For news or mail or evidence of what Rachel calls The Pale Which We Are Way Beyond, we wait for the rough-and-ready airplane pilot, Mr. Eeben Axelroot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Confession: I’ve been on an airplane a grand total of one time. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Inside the mountains is dynamite to blow up bridges to keep out invaders, and inside the mountains are airplanes ready to zoom into the air in a blink to keep out invaders. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The airplane came down so low that I could sec those men were laughing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a new model airplane, I knew right away. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The conflict struck many people as horribly modern, fought as it was with recent inventions like tanks, airplanes, and poison gas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It must be very strange in an airplane, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It could be his Christmas gift to her, two airplane tickets tucked into the back of the guide. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I nodded toward the tail of the airplane, where the bathroom was. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I think: If I’m on an airplane, then where am I going? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Kind of like a Tyrannosaurus rex combined with an airplane, if an airplane flapped its wings really hard. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Ruth Nichols began flying airplanes as a teenager and even became the first woman licensed to fly a seaplane. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “I ran into him on an airplane recently,” said Paul, “and he told me he had moved to India to head up GE’s high-energy research there.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The Japanese often attacked American convoys with airplanes sent out from their aircraft carriers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This was before Billy had his head broken in an airplane crash, by the way—before he became so vocal about flying saucers and traveling in time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z While on the airplane, I went over my speech a dozen times. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There was a sound from an airplane overhead. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The pilot buzzed my tent three times in quick succession, dropping two boxes on each pass; then the airplane disappeared over a ridge, and I was alone. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize now that the several hundred people who had gathered simply came to see the airplane, but at that time we thought they were there to do my mother honor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There aren’t any roads in the forest, but only a few jeep trails used by rangers, and airplanes are not permitted to fly over it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He knows the cost of a human life lost in an airplane crash, a car accident, a mining disaster. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z An airplane glinted, mercury bright in the dark high blue. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It was something like a helicopter, painted a metallic gray-black like the photos of a stealth bomber in Otto’s airplane encyclopedia. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He flew in airplanes and crossed the ocean in ships. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z I sat under the dome light of the airplane, worried that I’d somehow blown it with those fourteen stupid words. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A badly constructed paper airplane wobbled past my nose. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I was born in the middle of World War II. From earliest awareness, my mother’s stories always timely, I watched for three airplanes parting. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the clouds had lifted, but there was no airplane in sight. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I put my bookmark—a coaster from the airplane—in the right spot and pulled the blanket over my sisters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The eyes of the air base turned in the direction of the fat-bodied transport plane that was bringing foodstuffs and airplane parts to Smythe Field, and Bull Meecham back to his family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll draw a banana, a perfectly lovely banana, and they’ll say, “It’s a yellow airplane!” or “It’s a duck without wings!” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z When Father and Leah went away on the airplane we just needed to lay on down awhile. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to tilt my head back to look at the airplane, which is bigger than I expected it to be, and silver-white. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She sends me on my way, working always and now old, dreaming the dreams about shrinking babies and the sky covered with airplanes and a Chinatown bigger than the ones here. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I now own an airplane, Miyax. It’s the only way to hunt today. The seals are scarce and the whales are almost gone; but sportsmen can still hunt from planes.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “This isn’t the time to make paper airplanes.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe he can help us design a better paper airplane.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z They felt sorry for us so they sent us comic books to take on the airplane with us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred thousand wizards gasped as the two Seekers, Krum and Lynch, plummeted through the center of the Chasers, so fast that it looked as though they had just jumped from airplanes without parachutes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z One day on an airplane, he confided to me that he thought of all our fellow passengers as potential patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z An airplane hangar at Boeing Field—then Seattle’s principal airport—collapsed, destroying several aircraft inside. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The room which she found most to her liking had a bunk bed with brown corduroy spreads and models of airplanes hanging on delicate wires from the ceiling. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I went to the pagoda first, but I couldn’t fly airplanes or even sit on the rocks because it’d been ruined by the Detentionheads. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t care about airplanes! Have you planted the idea about offering a reward?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z One was a bad Hamilton and another was the airplane. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We got very good at listening for the sound of airplane engines and distinguishing the sounds of enemy bombers from friendly cargo transports. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z If you’d asked me about Nazi Germany, I would have remembered swastikas on tanks and airplanes from World War II movies. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like the tractor she had seen at the trading post or the airplanes she had occasionally glimpsed, although it came from the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Stomping, walking, shouting, sailing paper airplanes through the air, students were milling about as though they were having a wild party. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Although the weapon was beyond my comprehension, there was nothing about flying an airplane that I did not understand. If this bomb could be carried in an airplane, I could do the job.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I still couldn’t see much of the island—just mist and rocks—but floating in the water were pieces of wood and fiberglass, the wreckage of old ships, even some flotation cushions from airplanes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He would greet visitors, ask them to sign the guest book, and then direct them, like he was an air-traffic controller and they were taxiing airplanes, to the Serenity Suite. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There we sat, draped like tired bridesmaids with our yards of white veil, numbed by the airplane’s horrible noise, skimming above the treetops. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a far cry from their old airplane hangar; it looked more like the new Suzzallo Library back in Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Uncle Henry said that he already knew about those airplanes from the newspapers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was finally my chance to be a part of the airplane crew. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “That airplane and runway are going to be trouble for your dad.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “But watch for planes in threes. When they spread apart, you know they’re going to drop bombs. Sometimes airplanes covered the sky, and we could not see and we could not hear.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, in May 1933, he took off in his tiny airplane and set a course for Everest by way of Cairo, Tehran, and India. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Corcoran had got the prize—a plastic airplane—away from the baby and was making it fly back and forth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z After trying college for a year, she earned money for her own airplane by playing softball. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Mama said the airplane was a special chart plane the Underdowns sent for us to get all our stuff that needed getting and fly on out of here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z How could a black man fly an airplane? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bodega was the type of guy who, if he was going to show you how to make paper airplanes, would first tell you how trees had to be cut down in order to make paper. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The monkeys were then put into wooden crates and flown to Amsterdam on a specially fitted cargo airplane, and from Amsterdam they were flown to New York City. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ears popped, eyes bulged,” Shorty Hunt wrote home breathlessly that night. joe had never flown in an airplane, never seen a city from any higher vantage point than that afforded by his own six-foot-three frame. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He was still on the airplane, a Delta flight, from Salt Lake to Winnepeg. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Very accurate clocks carried in airplanes slow down a little compared to stationary clocks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The streaks of sun caught on the airplane wings blind me so I can’t see her face. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “It’s like an airplane taking off,” I said, working my jaw to , „8 > release the air. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Would you rather fall out of an airplane or into a shark tank? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Just two years prior, with the storm clouds gathering, President Roosevelt challenged the nation to ramp up its production of airplanes to fifty thousand per year. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Soon the airplanes came, adding their waspy buzz to the music. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z World War II was largely fought and won in the skies with airplanes that flew faster and did more things than ever before. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z But he refused to travel by airplane or accept packages COD, lived in fear of unexpected visitors, and had not been abroad in eight or nine years. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And bombs are metal balls dropped from airplanes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His work, flying all lands of new airplanes, sounded even better than what I was doing with my old F-86. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked more like an airplane cockpit than a car, and Milton was at the controls, Milton was flying his last Cadillac over the Detroit River. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I’d only been there once, with my dad a year and a half ago, but I still had my model airplane I got in the gift shop. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z You’d think that after going up in an airplane, climbing a tree would be easy. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We had not seen a schooner sail or heard an airplane since setting foot on the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out new houses for reconstruction? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “It’s how they want it. Now that you and your sisters are here, you can play along while I get back to my airplane models.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The Maneuver Loads Branch conducted research on the forces on an airplane as it moved out of stable, steady flight or tried to return to stable, steady flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes I think Jessica would follow Shay out of an airplane without a parachute. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z To go alone in an airplane for the first time used to be so exciting that it nearly choked you. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We arrive not long before my grandfather is about to take his last breaths, breathless ourselves from our first ride in an airplane. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z When my son was young, he got detention once for throwing paper airplanes at the ceiling during class. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was an old airplane hangar built by the U.S. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We drive through the gardens and outbuildings that surround it, and peeking out from behind the edge of the compound are the airplanes, white and stationary. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Also, a very precise clock has been observed to slow down ever so slightly when flown in an airplane at great speed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And airplane tickets to places they haven’t the energy or the desire to visit. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Rachel sassed him straight to his face, and tried to climb right into the airplane with her things! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They are all wearing airplane pillow- cases over their heads, with holes cut for the eyes and for the mouths, which show in the dim light as white glints, pink glis- tenings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, while Father was smack in the middle of explaining something to the Underdowns, they suddenly hustled us onto a tiny airplane and abandoned us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Compared to Hitler’s forces, the Polish military was primitive, consisting of a few airplanes, a few ships, and a small cavalry. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Belgium and Denmark are only an hour or so apart by airplane, for example. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There were eight copies of the Seagull paper airplane design. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Papi begins explaining that the Garcías have finally gotten permission to leave the country, and they’ll be taking the airplane in a few hours to go to the United States of America. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z That is why people who travel in airplanes never see anything. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “I’m tired of airplanes and bombs and war!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A high government official had told a joke on an airplane that had gotten him fired. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Like I’ve been shoved out of the airplane without a parachute because mothers are the parachutes. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z One day he’d speak up for himself when he saw everyone else flying an airplane except him. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z There was an off chance I was really the airplane zipping over the earth creating rescue and doom everywhere I went. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “How long did you work there? In the airplane factory.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Sandman’s “control” principle might also explain why most people are more scared of flying in an airplane than driving a car. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Next thing I know, my arms jut out sideways like an airplane to keep myself from falling, but that doesn’t work. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The late-summer Georgia heat beat down on the metal shell of the airplane that we’d been packed into for over an hour. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “I want to go to sleep early because of jet lag,” she said, but Brave Orchid, who had never been on an airplane, did not let her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z An airplane passed overhead on its course to Miami and he watched its shadow scaring up the schools of flying fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But when we stepped off the airplane and staggered out into the field with our bags, the Congolese people surrounded us-—Lordy!—in a chanting broil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a harder time imagining the airplane that flew it south. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z As he folded his page and slipped it into his bag, two boys in the back launched paper airplanes at the girls in the second row. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “It’s best described as a ‘pilots airplane,’ ” said an American military official in a front-page article in the Washington Post. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z What was the name of Charles Lindbergh’s airplane? Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl looked up, wildly searching the empty sky for the airplane she was hearing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z When the airplane is about to crash or blow up, the pilot can fire the rocket, which blasts him—still strapped in his chair—free of the airplane. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing jeans and a serious brown cardigan with a white shirt underneath, the tips of the collar fanned out like crisp paper airplanes heading opposite directions. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She believed, for instance, having learnt it at school, that the Party had invented airplanes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z For a few, this was the first airplane ride they had ever taken. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Whenever I get off an airplane, I feel like I’ve been deep fried, dripping in oil. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He had turned it into a shrine to the two things he loved: airplanes and dogs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z An airplane has left a thin trail of white cotton behind it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Jay carefully laid out all the pieces of his model airplane like they would break if he was rough with them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z While Dad lived, Mother was afraid of fast driving, of airplanes, of walking alone at night. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z All 3 billion of us are being connected by telephones, radios, television sets, airplanes, satellites, harangues on public-address systems, newspapers, magazines, leaflets dropped from great heights, words got in edgewise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The northern armies got the best of most battles because they had more soldiers and guns and all of the airplanes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They retreat into Frederick’s bedroom, which is populated with tin soldiers and model airplanes and wooden crates full of comic books. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Below the window are a blue plastic chair and a small desk that drops down from the wall like an airplane tray table. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He nods once as I try hard to shake out the mind movie of me as an airplane. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Through the open doors, he cannot see Saint-Malo, but he hears the airplanes, hundreds of them, and a great pall of smoke hangs over the horizon day and night. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Dust lets go of Mv model airplane On the TV. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a paper airplane floating on a current. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z When the paper airplane bounced off the back of the driver’s head, the man pulled the bus over onto the shoulder. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z “Look here. There’s the Welch Airport, just beside Davy Mountain. This must be a flare dropped from an airplane!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I felt as if I were stupidly sticking my head out the window of an airplane in flight. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She quadrupled her already fabulous record and she was awarded the fairest prize of all— a ride in an army airplane. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Stephen’s packets of airplane trading cards, held together with rotting elastic bands. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z First he heard the buzz of airplane engines. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. McDuff, the mine carpenter, built me a desk and some bookshelves for my new room, and I stocked them with science-fiction books and model airplanes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z If motion was impossible, there would be no such things as airplanes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Birds, the pigeons of New York, and cats, and even the high purring of airplanes above the city Tucker had heard. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Having flown fighter airplanes for years, I was accustomed to rolling and looping and even spinning, but I had never flown sideways or backward before. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z From around the country, more than a thousand black naval recruits were sent to the school to receive instruction in the repair of airplane and boat engines. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Milkman wanted boats, cars, airplanes, and the command of a large crew. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of a few hours, his shoppers included a young woman with a giant diamond ring and a former airplane parts inspector living off her disability checks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It is launched vertically, attached to rockets, but it has wings and can glide back to a runway and land like an airplane. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In airplanes circling overhead, press photographers struggled to keep both boats in the frame of a single shot. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His airplane shook as a missile leapt off the wing, riding a trail of flame. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Lor long stretches no one spoke, leaving only the tap of our shoes on pavement and the sounds of the city: airplanes, the ever-present hum of traffic, sirens that warbled and pitch-shifted around us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Mixed with someone’s perfume and the stale airplane air, the smell makes my stomach lurch. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Technically, flying paper airplanes from here is littering. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Like in an airplane when the oxygen masks drop and everything goes haywire, they always tell you to put on your own mask first before helping others. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z His airplane on the ground at his feet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The first model airplane I ever made was of a famous racing plane called the Gee Bee. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother explained airplanes to them as she wiggled their ears. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t have to go looking for trouble in an airplane,” he noted, blinking his beady, brown, offended eyes myopically. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It doesn’t work in an airplane cockpit on a stormy night with an exhausted pilot trying to land at an airport with a broken glide scope. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The buzz of the airplane receded in the damp, windy distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We all put on our shoes and went down to see the airplane land. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood at the edge of our pool, held his arms out like airplane wings, and then, wearing nothing at all but white cotton briefs, let himself fall into the cool water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Off the agency’s long hallways are laboratories filled with airplane wreckage: a mangled piece of an engine turbine, a problematic piece of a helicopter rotor. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z That eyes that had seen big cities and the inside of airplanes were the measure. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a tank and an airplane that shot—BOP! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time any of them had been on an airplane. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Most of the paper airplanes drifted in looping circles, spiraling down the three stories under the dome in one or two minutes. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The back of the airplane was so full of bags I had to sit on them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The T-38 is a beautiful airplane; sleek and slim, it looks as if it is going 400 miles an hour when it is parked on the ramp. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For the flyboys of the air corps, airplanes were mechanisms for transporting troops and supplies to combat zones, armed wings for pursuing enemies, sky-high launching pads for ship-sinking bombs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It is exciting to watch the airplanes looping and rolling over the runway at low altitude. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her feet go forward and her heart ba-bamps three days later, as she walks down the ramp to their airplane. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Throughout his life, Bell created many other inventions, including those that paved the way for the development of airplanes and phonograph records. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I don't know how airplanes stay up in the air and fly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z W.E. squinched his little nearsighted eyes together, wrinkled up his stubby nose, drew his arm way back, and pitched the airplane with all his might. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “That would take forever. What is your objection to flying in an airplane?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z No other sounds; no motors, no airplanes, no distant pop of gunfire or howling of wounded men or yapping of dogs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Once I had had to eject from a burning airplane, and I knew that the procedures had to be memorized and be very clear in your mind. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not merely an engineering problem like the one the supersonic airplane solves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The invention of airplanes dated from long before her birth, but the switch-over in the war had happened only four years ago, well after she was grown up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Every second the airplanes draw closer; every second is a second lost. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At the north end of the lake, a silver airplane circled the area of the finish line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This was another airplane just as little but yellow this time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They spent hours building model airplanes, talking and dreaming about cars, and playing on the school’s softball team. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z So Lily sat down and pretended to read the Truman thing, which went like this: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When I did the presentation at school and when I got on the airplane, and both times I’d been okay. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Building an airplane was nothing compared to shepherding research through Langleys grueling review process. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The engineers subjected the airplanes to tests, capturing and analyzing the numbers, recommending improvements, some slight, others significant. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The first goal of the mission was to sabotage America's light-metals industry to stop the manufacturing of products needed in war, especially airplanes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z When we went up there the first time I saw those little dirty diamonds in a sack in the back of the airplane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Milkman took out his wallet and pulled from it his airplane ticket stub, but he had no pencil to write with, and his pen was in his suit. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He had jumped out of airplanes at night into the open sea, wearing scuba gear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The homeroom teacher is saying that if everyone gets things cleaned up quickly, we can have a paper airplane contest with some of these papers. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But at least the Saedis got to take an airplane out of the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Then I heard a single airplane engine cut through the rest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z My favorite plane was the British Spitfire, which was a beautiful, graceful-looking airplane with a slender fuselage and a curved, elliptical-shaped wing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, Liz would kill me if I had a chance to go up in an airplane and didn’t take it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Gazing out to the bridge, I felt what I almost felt on the airplane. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The airplane ride exhilarated him, encouraged illusion and a feeling of invulnerability. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was once thought that airplanes could not travel faster than sound. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The crack of wood breaking startled me, but I let out a breath of relief when I saw it was only Jay punching out the pieces of his model airplane kit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z "Aha! Look, it's an airplane!" the father cries, making his hand swoop around before bringing a spoonful toward the little girl. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “So, then—just checking—he doesn’t really fly airplanes, does he?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z People fly in airplanes, but living on other planets, that’s something else. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He lives way on down by the airplane field in a shack by himself whenever he comes over here, and Mama says that’s close enough quarters for him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The barbershop quartet on the airplane was singing “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nelly,” when the plane smacked into the top of Sugarbush Mountain in Vermont. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I could tell them about the airplane ride. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She whispered to Brave Orchid that the reason the family must not go out was that “they” would take us in airplanes and fly us to Washington, D.C., where they’d turn us into ashes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere there wasn’t an airplane, there was a dog. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z My mind closed down and I came immediately back to my bed, my room coalescing around me, my desk and chair, my little chest of drawers, the books and model airplanes suddenly so terribly real. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Hours later, he wakes to see the silhouette of an airplane blot stars as it hurtles east. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Is he the one who gleaned an entire airplane?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Jay put the airplane box down on the table and looked around for it, his eyes bright as noontime. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Attached to this building, which Mr. Gonzalez referred to as “the brain center,” was that factory, a bamlike prototype of an airplane hangar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A small airplane passed overhead—the third one of the morning—and we both stood up to wave. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z On the way I was so hungry from not eating while conked out on the airplane that I begged for rice. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Among these was an absolute ban on “flying in airplanes of any description,” except with Groves’s explicit consent. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Uncle Etienne says heaven is like a blanket babies cling to. He says people have flown airplanes ten kilometers above the earth and found no kingdoms there. No gates, no angels.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I don’t like to check things, I like to jam it all under the airplane seat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He and his wife died in an airplane crash in 1965. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z More than anything lately, Max likes to fold complicated designs of paper airplanes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented airplanes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Who wears knee-high combat boots on an airplane? Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Simon settles onto the stool, looking like a toddler about to fly an airplane. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “What does building a paper airplane have to do with the study of library science?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The sound of an airplane flying overhead came from the cassette player just as Crab forced the door open and walked in, dripping with sweat, rifle in his left hand. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Orr popped out of the sinking airplane last. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But it’s also true that most people spend a lot more time in cars than in airplanes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Two hours into Thai Air flight 311 from Bangkok to Kathmandu, I left my seat and walked to the rear of the airplane. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Overhead, we heard the drone of airplanes, and we all looked up. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z A Renaissance man of the plains, he is a farmer, welder, businessman, machinist, ace mechanic, commodities speculator, licensed airplane pilot, computer programmer, electronics troubleshooter, video-game repairman. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first airplane we had ever seen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His excitement was plain on his face as he held up the balsa-wood airplane model kit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z At dawn, they gathered up their tubes of blood and ran to the airplane and handed the samples to the pilots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In his home he hung Nazi flags in prominent locations and displayed airplane models of Messerschmitts and Junkers as well as an oil painting of Adolf Hitler and other memorabilia from the Third Reich. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And flight time was the time he had to spend in airplane flight each month in order to get his flight pay. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But not with arms stretched out like airplane wings, nor shot forward like Superman in a horizontal dive, but floating, cruising, in the relaxed position of a man lying on a couch reading a newspaper. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he would go out onto the porch to listen and to search the sky for airplanes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “You guys have food on the chopper? Chips or something? Maybe some of those crispy Biscoff cookies I had on an airplane once?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “An American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,” Truman announced to the world. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he told her that airplanes had been in existence before he was born, and long before the Revolution, the fact struck her as totally uninteresting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The fins all had different jobs, like the wings of an airplane. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “I’d have never known that you knew anything about airplanes if we didn’t just hang out sometimes.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z After that they wished to fly airplanes, or be prizefighters, or preachers or dancers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Would you like us to charter you an airplane?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z When she thought of San Francisco, she thought about the airplane and the fire and blood and the flashes and death. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fly, like, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, and carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The only thing I knew for sure was that the bomb wasn’t dropped on the church by an airplane. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to his airplane’s red painted tail. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She did not hear the airplane; she saw it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved having Grandmother or Mother read me stories in the dining room, or Papa seat me on his lap to do math problems or build airplanes at the kitchen table with Brother and me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Every airplane, no matter how far it is up there, I send love to it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Before the photo albums are packed away, I take my fa- vorite picture of Jaimito, sitting in his wooden airplane, a giant smile on his face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Duly Pilgrim got onto a chartered airplane in Ilium twenty-five years after that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The overhead lights had gone out and come back on and flickered again, and now they were on only dimly, like emergency lights leading out of a burning building or a crashed airplane. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Max opens the balcony doors and folds an airplane with hotel stationery. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Stalin had a sad clown face as airplanes hit his head. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I got almost all of them to myself when Leah and them all went to sleep on the airplane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As he was rearranging the stacks, an old sheet of wide-lined tablet paper folded into an airplane fell out of one binder and glided to the floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "What is it, like a model airplane or something?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I talked with one of them, and she was bored with yachts and bored with flying around in airplanes and bored with skiing in Switzerland at Christmas and bored with the men in Brazil. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z We will have to take an airplane that flies in the sky to get there. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He had lost his airplane and had to return on foot, but he had not broken any bones and his adventurous spirit was intact. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time the Communist airplane flew over Hankow on its way to Wuchang, I ran outside and shook my fist at the pilot and shouted all the Chinese swear words I knew. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We were at airplane height now—so high the sky was starting to look black. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Matsika is lying down. She had a bad night. The General is meeting with the President over a national emergency. I think the Gondwannans shot down a Zimbabwean airplane.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Because there are all sorts of neat paper airplane designs in here,” said Sierra. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Jones, whose theory on triangular delta-shaped airplane wings would revolutionize the discipline, was walking through the streets of Hampton one evening when he came upon a group of Hampton police officers harassing a black man. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There is no other sound, not of traffic or airplanes or trains or radios or the specter of Frau Schwartzenberger rattling the cage of the elevator. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His hair was cut just as flat on top, so miniature airplanes could’ve used it for a landing strip. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And a detour sits on my tongue like an airplane waiting on the runway. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the time, the time he was not watching his mother’s magic or thinking of airplanes, he spent in the idle pursuits of bachelors without work in small towns. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There are humans all over the place, driving in cars and flying in airplanes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Soon, the old president was the ex-president on an airplane to Puerto Rico. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maddie thought to herself, thinking about airplanes: just you wait, you idiot Fascists. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z This woman Ajax loved, and after her—airplanes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He came in the airplane at dusk and stayed until morning, hidden in the house of Toorlexa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “For kids who want to fly. Or like airplanes.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z And because she knows airplanes can be lonely places and because she knows how desperate loneliness can be, she pays extra attention to her passengers. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Using a pulley system of airplane seat belts, they hoisted the hammock-bags high into the trees, free from the surging tide. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The other teams were too busy debating the design of their paper airplanes to pay them much attention. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z It was like walking into the cockpit of an airplane and finding the pilot and co-pilot passed out drunk in their seats. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The man seated next to her was eating bitter kola, crunching loudly, and when he turned to make conversation she slowly shifted away until she was pressed against the airplane wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One possibility is that the Reston strain originated in Africa and flew to the Philippines on an airplane not long ago. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I got my first airplane ride when I was eleven, and the pilot even let me fly the plane a little bit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Test Pilot School I learned how to get as much information as possible from a new airplane in the shortest possible time. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a heavy breather on account of his asthma, which was why he didn’t fight in the war even though he had a military flattop haircut that looked like an airport for paper airplanes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Portraits of the candidates were on every wall; pamphlets were dropped from airplanes and carpeted the streets with printed refuse that fell from the sky like snow. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now 1 had that responsibility, to check everything from A to Z, so that when a new airplane entered squadron service, there would be no surprises waiting for the new boy, the inexperienced second lieutenant. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In his wooden chair, Volkheimer reminds Jutta of an image from one of Max’s picture books: an elephant squeezed into an airplane seat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The boat moved ahead slowly and he watched the airplane until he could no longer see it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a war on, so I’m delivering airplanes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weasley entered the room just in time to see Ron throw the sprout knife at Fred, who had turned it into a paper airplane with one lazy flick of his wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z These few, even after today, still wouldn’t have had the experience of landing in an airplane, just taking off and jumping out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When she opens the bedroom window, the noise of the airplanes becomes louder. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Coupons are needed for everything, from flour to shoes, and yet the Nazis continue to press for war donations—more woolen clothing for the soldiers and German marks to buy cannons, tanks, and airplanes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z It didn't look much like a factory—no towering steel silos or smokestacks billowing carbon monoxide, just a few buildings that vaguely reminded him of airplane hangars. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Traveling upon the peach was not in the least like traveling in an airplane. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I had lived through the wildest hour where nobody did anything major to me, but their threats, near misses, and flying paper airplanes and pencils had shattered my nerves. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gazing out to the bridge, I felt what I almost felt on the airplane. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone is restless and chatting, signing one another’s yearbooks, paper airplanes soaring through the back rows, cell phones buzzing on tabletops. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his state.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z With an airplane like a T-38 you can do things you never dreamed of, high in the quiet sky. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re not saying there’s anything here, but we think there’s something there” is how Boeing’s chief engineer for airplane safety put it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Then came the roar of the airplanes, and the bombing began. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I sucked my teeth and held up one of my airplanes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z And when he was not sitting enchanted listening to his mother’s words, he thought of airplanes, and pilots, and the deep sky that held them both. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A helicopter is not like an airplane, a smooth fast bullet. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z With round- the-clock pressure to test the airplanes queued up in the hangar, engineers would welcome the additional hands. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Now the villagers were watching for Japanese airplanes that strafed the mountainsides every day. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the long flight back to Washington, D.C., he stood in the back of his windowless military airplane, arguing about the situation with Bob Komer, one of President Johnson’s aides on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When we arrived at the airport, I was surprised to be at a gate for a large airplane. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But you showed me the photos you took at the site, so I know she has crashed an airplane by now. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The guy made a paper airplane, and he couldn’t resist flying it. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Henry Reid, engineer-in-charge of the Langley laboratory, crooned to his employees, the shibboleth a reminder of the importance of the airplane to the war’s outcome. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She was disappointed to see the sleek white forms of airplanes gliding up as they approached the airport. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Earlier in the day they’d seen a few airplanes flying ahead. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z More luxurious than the finest airplane, gliding effortlessly over huge distances, built on a scale that left spectators gasping, it was, in the summer of ’29, the wonder of the world. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z But the Shuttle, half spacecraft and half airplane, can be used over and over again. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why does he keep going up ?” “He’s probably afraid to come down,” Sergeant Knight answered, without moving his solemn gaze from McWatt’s solitary climbing airplane. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “And now, patron, tell me what I can do for you,” Transito Soto finally said, settling into the reclining seat of an airplane pilot while she toyed with the pearls around her neck. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she remembered that when the fog rolled over Barrow, airplanes were grounded, ships and boats had to be anchored, and even the two jeeps in town sat where they had stopped in the fog. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the enormous investments made in nuclear weapons during World War II and in airplanes and trucks during World War I launched whole new fields of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He said the engine was the same type used on small airplanes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And I send love to the passengers inside the airplanes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z A tiny airplane drops him off in a jungle thick with green leaves and palm and banana trees—what I imagine the Ecuadorian rain forest must look like. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The airplane set down in the capital; he took the Trail ways bus up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My opponent flailed the air about the Ethiopians throwing rocks and spears at Italian airplanes, “proving” that compulsory military training was needed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was blinding white on the porcelain-blue water below and on the flashing edges of the other airplanes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When Billy finally got home to Ilium after the airplane crash, he was quiet for a while. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc Daneeka had been told that people who enjoyed climbing into an airplane were really giving vent to a subconscious desire to climb back into the womb. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It showed an airplane flying over the rooftops, and a cheap fare to Boston, under the slogan, “We Bring the World to You.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z That’s why I finally put airplane glue in the keyhole of the lock so nobody could use the telephone, key or no key. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He sings this cheerfully, but I think it’s a sad song, because although I’ve seen the pictures of the airplanes on the cigarette cards I don’t know how they fly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "And an airplane, and a TV set," said Ralph sourly, "and a steam engine." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Just as most people spend more time in cars than in airplanes, most of us have a lot more experience swimming in pools than shooting guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Pickle Baron dreams and the People’s War joined the racks of broken airplanes in his glass-paned cupboard. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just looking at the sky. And at the airplanes. It’s what I do, I guess.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z In the distance the airplanes come and go. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Clutched in one fat starfish of a hand was the plastic airplane which had come with its Happy Meal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Take it off,” the officer shouted, “or you will not fly on any airplane leaving this airport.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Yet some 7,000,000 pounds of parathion are now applied to fields and orchards of the United States — by hand sprayers, motorized blowers and dusters, and by airplane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She’s sitting out on the porch looking at the hole in the sky where the airplane went away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the large windows I see afternoon light winking in the side panels of the parked airplanes on the landing strip. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Obviously, an airplane has no way of telling the skin color of the person flying it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I unfolded the note and cleared my throat: “This entitles the Nisbett Family to one airplane ride from Pine Bluff to Little Rock.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This time it was just Father and me in the airplane, plus Mr. Axelroot, and twenty pounds of dry goods and canned whole prunes the Underdowns couldn’t take with them when they fled the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was able to leave his bed, he grabbed Nicolas by the collar, pushed him onto an airplane, and shipped him overseas with instructions not to return for the rest of his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The seats are narrow and jammed together on these commuter airplanes, and you notice everything that is happening inside the cabin. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But paper doesn’t throw very well, unless you fold it into a paper airplane, which I hadn’t done, so it just kind of slid into his lap. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Percy and Hazel managed to get Ella out of the Cadillac, but as soon as the harpy saw the airplane, she began to shriek. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Part of her job at Aero Design and Engineering, an aircraft manufacturer, was flying at conventions to interest potential buyers in the company's airplanes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z They were too busy, back at their worktables down in the Rotunda Reading Room, folding the paper airplanes they had chosen from that one book in the 700s room. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “I was chief engineer on the paper airplane project.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Dad focused on one of my model airplanes on my dresser. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At three, Milton sat in a toy airplane while Theodora spun the propeller. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By the time I had gotten my hands on an airplane, the test pilots had already wrung it out and had made sure that it was safe for me to fly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Or in the army, diving out of airplanes. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Running the leaf under his nose, flying it in like an airplane — nothing worked. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Until I moved closer to the city, I only ever saw airplanes up high. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Since the Wright Brothers’ 1915 Flyer, airplanes had evolved from pelican-like awkwardness to sleek machines with the silhouette of a falcon; why wouldn’t a spaceship continue along that same path? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We were at the pagoda, and I was flying paper airplanes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He hatched a scheme to fly a small airplane to Tibet, crash-land it on the flanks of Everest, and proceed to the summit from there. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Some villagers had never seen an airplane before. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After I went to sleep and woke up again in the airplane Mr. Axelroot told us what all we could see from up there looking down: Hippos in the river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I look down and see I am back in the paper airplane. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “It’s an airplane. We might be able to take you up in one sometime, if it doesn’t seem too daunting for you.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She blabbed hysterically about Billy and the airplane crash, and then she put her car in gear and crossed the median divider, leaving her exhaust system behind. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A bee lifted off a flower in slow motion, like an airplane rising. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then we were bombed by a Jackboot airplane. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z An average-size human being jumping out of an airplane will reach 99 percent of terminal velocity—approximately 122 miles per hour—within about fifteen seconds. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As the virtual light reflected off its foil surface, I thought about folding the wrapper into a paper airplane and sailing it across the room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They went on with several verses, the boy in the middle doing his imitation of an airplane. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to me that he had willingly retreated to my room after the scolding Mom gave him about the corn and airplane. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It only took me a minute to find it—a small wooden airplane, hand-carved, with a note taped to the tail. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Eeben Axelroot’s airplane with coronas of flame dancing around the wings as it touched down on a field of waving pink grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His lunches lasted three hours, and he made paper airplanes of the homework he was supposed to supervise. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Then, for the first time in his life, he boarded an airplane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z August stood beside Our Lady and folded May’s suicide letter so it resembled a tiny paper airplane. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knows whether the same effect will be seen in human beings, yet this chemical has been sprayed from airplanes over suburban areas and farmlands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He collects cigarette cards with pictures of airplanes on them, and knows the names of all the planes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z This would make women incapable of safely piloting airplanes, jets, or spacecraft. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Determined not to let Chapter Eleven’s condemnation of tourism ruin our travel plans, Milton was making airplane reservations and haggling with car rental agencies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Maybe she was afraid of the airplane ride and getting knocked around by those clouds. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It whisked by so fast we might’ve been in an airplane. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The sky against which an airplane beacon played was still overcast. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I take her hand in mine and watch another airplane enter my field of vision from the east. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Just before Werner closes the shutter, a single airplane comes through the dusk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He lived in a shabby, rundown house on the edge of Fry, with old tires, a rusty wheelbarrow, a condemned birdhouse, an airplane toilet, and other trash in the yard. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They looped around me, sounding like sputtering, single-prop airplanes, before hurrying home. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He squatted down right there on the carpet to look at the airplane close up. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The university had a reputation for spawning world-class scientists exploring how to optimize use of technology in airplanes and in the military, in the tradition of Broadbent and Dr. Treisman. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Why is it you never mentioned any of this before the airplane crash?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought about airplanes and video games, pizza and baseball, cupcakes and the Yankees. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I landed on the wing of an old-fashioned silver airplane, which pitched and almost spilled me to the floor, three stories below. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z From that day on, he wanted nothing to do with airplanes. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z There was even an icing airplane flying across the cake. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Then the airplane was gone and Genie could hear him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She was immediately allowed to leave the country on Koizumi’s airplane. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Never flown in an airplane,” said Horace, brushing water from the brim of his hat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The contraption lay with its stomach on terra firma, heavy and sluggish and looking more like a wounded duck than like one of those newfangled airplanes they were starting to produce in the United States. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And when Halmoni comes, I will ask her if she liked the bus that is called an airplane. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I got excited when I first pulled back the wrapping paper, because I saw a wing, an airplane wing, on the cover of the box, and I felt my heart leap up in my chest. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Then she boards an airplane back to Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Around her dress, Taylor had constructed a makeshift bandolier out of airplane seat belts, a pink unicorn wallet, and a tampon carrying case. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Bending over was important; otherwise, the canopy would hit you in the head as it departed the airplane. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t I have enough to worry about without worring about being killed in an airplane crash too?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I imagined how such a thing might look from an airplane’s height—the whole island suddenly winking out, as if it had never been there at all. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid would add her will power to the forces that keep an airplane up. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One was the airplane he often piloted himself out of the Chamisaville airport. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever Comrade Pillai stored in his curtained cupboard, it wasn’t broken balsa airplanes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was watching an airplane up so high, and wondered where it was going. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z To Alex, airplanes and dogs went together like peanut butter and baloney, which happened to be his favorite sandwich. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I had practiced this so many times in the zero G airplane that it seemed very natural now. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He plucked a biplane from its string and swept it across the battlefield, making airplane engine noises as he knocked down little German soldiers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Even Father doesn’t know we rode in a airplane with diamonds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was thinking how amazing it was that people could get on an airplane and step off again in a different universe. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z By late afternoon he’d filled up on sleep, and we played airplane. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The girls glide down the front steps like a unit, like airplanes in formation. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were waiting in the airplane, he put his hands on me hard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept getting them mixed up, but you could tell them apart by the airplanes if you paid attention. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “And another thing! I saw that toy airplane he won in a card game, and mark my words— you will never get in it. Never!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The airplane was huge, the biggest thing I had ever been inside of that was not a house. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He stepped back and realized what it was: a huge tire attached to an airplane’s landing gear. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I can’t believe the huge airplane I saw through the window feels so tiny inside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “I bet you felt like you were gonna pass out at church,” Jojo teased her once both the airplane and eagle had flown out of view. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The main part of the museum was one huge room with rockets and airplanes hanging from the ceiling. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Dad bought me a model airplane from the gift shop, a real A-10 Thunderbolt. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Inside the airplane are rows and rows of seats covered in ripped, fraying blue fabric. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Then she kissed him—a real kiss on the lips, much better than the kind of kiss she’d given Percy on the airplane. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z McCunn was stalking ducks with what remained of his ammunition when the stillness was rocked by the buzz of an airplane, which soon appeared overhead. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The only way to reallij learn that was to try it, although my old friend the zero G airplane was somewhat helpful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I see it. It looks like we’re in an airplane.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Hours later, Soviet officials met him at the police station and then hustled him onto a small airplane bound for Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We had watched airplanes lift up and fly off into blue sky as we neared the airport. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her, “Mr. Axelroot drinks red whiskey. He has it under the seat of his airplane. I rolled it out with my foot and then put it back.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After the introductions, Lovelace and Flickinger said something about an airplane the Soviets were testing. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z All seven of them had settled in at collaboration stations to pore through the paper airplane book. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I stare out the window of the airplane and see miles and miles of greenery sectioned into perfect squares. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It has powerful hydraulic pistons hooked to rudder, ailerons, and elevator, which means that if you move your hand on the stick or your feet on the rudders ever so slightly, the airplane reacts immediately. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To get the girl to eat, Lourdes pretends the spoon is an airplane. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z My life today—a very great deal of it—is spent in airplanes, rushing from one country to another, raising money, talking to groups of people, and starting Roots & Shoots in schools. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z We’d always keep a small fire smoldering up by the hut and if an airplane came near, he’d take a piece of burning wood from our small fire to ignite the big one. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The forces in favor of equality redoubled their efforts, determined to surmount the resistance to integration like a jet engine propelling an airplane through drag. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There were toy automobiles and trucks, windmills and merry-go-rounds, airplanes, boats and a lot of others, mostly run on batteries. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Paper airplanes, loud belches, high-pitched, ghostly moans followed by stifled giggles—it drives Mr. Curran mad that he cannot pick out one boy to punish for all this. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He loudly closed their copy of the paper airplane book. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “The old money guy has a twin-prop airplane and that is pretty incredible,” Kittredge continued. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Max kneels on the patio in the dusk, going over his airplane, checking the angle of its wings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A pilot, that’s what the TV show was called, like it was going to fly an airplane or something. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an airplane they had to make four. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I was allowed to fly airplanes again, and I hoped to be assigned to a flight crew, but my first job was to help with the flight of Borman-Lovell-Anders to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was supposed to depict Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z During the early years, airplanes were not permitted to fly over the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jasmin figures her father must have left on an airplane, too. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Their work had focused on aviation; after all, airplane cockpits were the place where human beings were most acutely confronted with new technologies, powerful ones that taxed our neurological limitations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She watched as he gripped a blue crayon and drew the outline of an airplane. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I used to practice during the week in the simulator and in the zero G airplane, but I saved Saturday morning for the “slippery table.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I never thought paper airplanes was for anything but to drive teachers crazy before.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z One year later, the importance of the airplane to US defense was underscored when the Army Air Corps was elevated to the status of an independent branch of the military: the United States Air Force. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The airplane is probably the most exciting technological development of the early twentieth century. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He came up with a whole avalanche of rocks, a classroom set of scissors, and enough paper to make a fleet of airplanes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “For going around twice ?” “You gave one to Hungry Joe when he cracked up that airplane by mistake.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Below me was Manhattan, from the height of an airplane. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Although she was a former softball player who had wrestled the controls in airplanes in the worst weather conditions, she could not pull her body weight up to the chin-up bar. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t make me nearly as nervous as being in an airplane. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z What I could have said was “I don’t know. I’m just good at putting airplanes together, I guess.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z In one is a World War Two airplane, in the style of a cigarette card; in the other is a large pale-green luna moth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t set foot on an airplane, so he drove. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “A couple of months ago, Mrs. Ruiz’s only son had tried to hijack a plane in Havana to go to Miami. He was shot and killed by the airplane’s pilot.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But whether she was demonstrating a new airplane or setting a world record, she knew she had to look like a lady. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I had made her use the airplane toilet while we were halfway through the flight. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z A single airplane tracks across the deepening blue, incredibly high. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But the night watchman of the Eiffel Tower, and some passengers who land in an airplane, are mysteriously able to move around the silent city. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Their thinking goes like this: since I control the car, I am the one keeping myself safe; since I have no control of the airplane, I am at the mercy of myriad external factors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “There was a remarkable man. He never flew in an airplane. You know why? He said to me, he said: ‘Always go on the ground, Laddy’—that’s when 1 was a kid he said that. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were now more wonderful to Miyax than airplanes, ocean liners, and great wide bridges. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew it,” he said later, “like an airplane pilot knows a radio beam.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe we should stay on the raft A schooner will see us, or an airplane.” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And after supper she folded an airplane for him from notebook paper, and at her suggestion he even followed her out on the front porch to fly it. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Max bounds to the door, airplane in hand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So I invented a Black Box Yellow Pages, which is a phone book that’s made out of the material that they make the black boxes on airplanes out of. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Jackboot airplanes were simply flying about practicing for the war. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z But when he came to know him better and realized his true character was the opposite of his submissive conduct, he conceived the malicious suspicion that even the wait for the airplane was an act. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Lindsey pointed the light next to her, and then drew a line back to Colin, like she was bringing an airplane into the gate. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I ’spect he’s not happy about an airplane takin’ over his space.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We were in JimmyTrotter’s room, pretending to love his model airplanes since there wasn’t anything new to do or see. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z We arrived at her office, which was decorated like the cockpit of an airplane and from which she ran her incredible organization with the efficiency of a banker. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “She runs moonshine too,” Dad said, his eyes still locked on the airplane. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z |
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