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Example sentences for "planes"

Lexicographically close words:
planctu; plane; planed; planer; planers; planet; planetarium; planetary; planete; planetesimal
  1. In a few paraparths the planes would be over the city.

  2. Our armies still pressed forward into Formia, protected from air attack by the three repaired planes and by the anti-aircraft gun, which had been sent forward by kerkool.

  3. A special detachment of Mooni-trained aviators and mechanics had gone at once to the three planes as soon as we had shot them down, and now one of them arose into the air fully repaired.

  4. For a long time Epworth watched the red planes of Joan’s glider anxiously but finally ascertaining that she was following him closely and imitating his movements he turned to Billy.

  5. Billy Sand inquired curiously as Epworth gave the order to close up a little on the other nine planes flying in a straight line ahead in military formation.

  6. A second later the five planes on the starboard swept up and poured a fierce rain of lead at the stranger.

  7. At this time all other planes that sailed the air were as silent as birds.

  8. I may be wrong,” she said, “but I seem to have a natural orientation that tells me that our planes are in this direction.

  9. The twenty occupants of the destroyed convoy planes jumped out almost at the same second, and sprang as far away from their falling crates as possible.

  10. He was just in time to meet an army of planes headed by Moawha and Billy.

  11. All three ran down the mountainside, got into the air, and with the bicycle motors they had attached to the planes directed their course to the Aerolite.

  12. Billy glanced up at the clear sky, picked up the signals, and, in obedience to Epworth’s command, closed in on the four planes flying on the left of the large passenger ship in the lead.

  13. These signals were answered by nine planes that were following Epworth’s guidance through the silent night lanes.

  14. Then he got one of the largest gliders, strapped the planes to his shoulders, and lifted into the air.

  15. And presently they ceased almost altogether, to be repeated only at rare intervals, when the drift of air opposing the planes developed irregularities in its velocity.

  16. Then, with a little shudder of hesitation, the planes dipped, inclined slightly earthwards, and began slowly and as if reluctantly to slip down the long and empty channels of the air.

  17. The planes of the two orbits, however, should not lie far apart, as otherwise a nodal disturbance would arise not perceived to exist.

  18. Even as he spoke, at least some black sailors were being trained in almost all naval ratings and were serving throughout the fleet, on planes and in submarines, working and living with whites.

  19. Yes, sir, it's a craft of some sorts," replied the chief petty officer who was responsible for the working of the planes and rudders.

  20. And ordering the planes to be tilted, he placed a safe distance between the Mosquito and the Serena.

  21. Meanwhile the Mosquito's aerial planes had been folded, and gliding rapidly through the water the little craft overhauled and gradually converged upon the stately yacht.

  22. So the Mosquito, her speed reduced until it was only just sufficient to enable her planes to resist the action of gravity, descended to a height of about two hundred feet above the sea, and hovered in circles above the crippled vessel.

  23. Of this kind of progressive advance towards higher planes of perfection, the Indian sage knew nothing.

  24. Again, it has been demonstrated that, by making the bottoms of the cells to consist of three planes meeting in a point, there is a saving of material and labour in no way inconsiderable.

  25. It is a curious mathematical problem at what precise angle the three planes which compose the bottom of a cell ought to meet, in order to make the greatest possible saving, or the least expense of material and labour.

  26. He has determined precisely the angle required, and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject would admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes at the bottom of the cell of a honey comb do actually meet.

  27. Whether they were not very exclusive veils of a super-harem, or planes of a very light material, we have an impression of star-shaped things with transparent appendages that have been seen in the sky.

  28. The photograph shows a long body surrounded by indefinite structures, or by the haze of wings or planes in motion.

  29. Material comfort is justified only because it enables mankind to live more effectively on the lower planes of life and give greater strength and greater energy to the solution of new problems upon the higher planes of life.

  30. I need not, however, repeat here what I have said elsewhere[145] about this confusion of the planes of being, perhaps the most important aspect of romantic love.

  31. His breaking down of barriers and running together of the planes of being results at times in ambiguous mixtures--gleams of insight that actually seem to minister to fleshliness.

  32. To set up the spontaneity of the child as a substitute for insight, to identify wonder with awe, romance with religion, is to confuse the very planes of being.

  33. She's as good as new," she told the mechanic joyfully, after both planes had landed, and she was paying her bill.

  34. With her Ladybug in the lead, the two planes made record time back to Jacksonville.

  35. The rain was abating somewhat, and the two planes made the return trip without any mishaps, arriving at the Jacksonville Airport before dark that evening.

  36. I want to get some kind of aviation job--I am more interested in the use of planes in every-day life than I am in races and spectacular events, though I understand that these have their place.

  37. Because of lack of capital, they are in great need of pilots with planes of their own.

  38. He set the planes and the machine glided to the water, where it came to rest lightly.

  39. Far back, even now, a fleet of perhaps a dozen German air planes were speeding westward.

  40. The air planes were strung out for considerable distance, no two being closer than two hundred yards together.

  41. Why, we'll stop right in the path taken by the enemy planes and then drop down upon the water.

  42. Pores with a peculiar disposition: twelve large elliptical pores in two crossed meridian planes (alternating with the twelve spines), separated by bands of irregular small pores.

  43. The Panartida must be derived from the Cyphinida by further increase in the longitudinal or main axis, and by repetition of the equatorial constriction in two transverse planes parallel to it and at an equal distance from it.

  44. Commonly all meridian planes are equal, as no transverse axes (or cross axes) are differentiated.

  45. The eight polar spines (four northern and four southern) lie in the same two meridian planes as the four equatorial spines.

  46. But as this third girdle is larger than the second, four other larger gates arise between the two (in planes perpendicular to the former four gates).

  47. Apophyses of the radial spines not forked, but crossed by perpendicular branches, which are placed in tangential planes and parallel to the cross axes of the quadrangular spine itself.

  48. The two opposite apophyses of the Diporaspida, as well as the four crossed apophyses of the Tessaraspida, lie constantly in certain meridian planes of the spine, which have a legitimate signification for each of the five zones.

  49. The bursting Teuton came clambering up it, forcing down the car and planes by his weight on to the heads of the crowd, which was forced to hold them up with a thousand hands.

  50. In half an hour the machine had rushed down to five hundred feet above the sea: Tinker switched the planes to the same angle upwards: and the momentum drove her up the incline of the air with little diminished speed.

  51. Settling downward were balls of blinding fire, flares dropped by the squadron of scout planes that had torn through in advance.

  52. They pick our planes out of the sky even when they're flying without lights.

  53. The myriad lights of the planes had drawn into a circle, a great whirlpool of lines that revolved above a mile-wide section of that valley.

  54. A winding passage showed between sheer walls of snow white, where giant crystals had parted along their planes of cleavage.

  55. They were fighting there--two hundred planes roaring downward, one formation following another.

  56. Then a left bank and turn brought the place of blazing flares and falling planes swinging smoothly into view; they were flying toward it.

  57. Over one hundred fighting planes were brought down in flames.

  58. Everywhere were mail planes, express and passenger ships taking off for the transcontinental day run, and private planes scattering to the smaller landing areas among the flashing lights of the flat-topped business blocks.

  59. Even the swift planes of the Coastal Service could not match the speed of the radio news.

  60. With motors throttled they were drifting slowly past, only a thousand feet higher than the circling planes just off at one side.

  61. Laboriously he spelled out his name, remembering the dots and dashes from earlier flying days when planes had been equipped with key-senders.

  62. The flying lights of the fighting planes were on for the planes' own protection; and, too, no further concealment was possible in the glare that shone upward from below.

  63. The risk which the British sea planes underwent was great, but there seems to have been no hesitation on the part of the aviators to fly to the attack.

  64. There is reason to believe, however, that these planes are used in naval reconnoitering, and their great size permits of the carrying of large supplies of fuel, giving them a great cruising radius.

  65. One of the planes was damaged by the defending guns.

  66. When about fifty miles from Schleswig-Holstein five sea planes and one "battle aeroplane" (according to the German version of the attack) rose from the mother ships and flew toward shore.

  67. German naval airships successfully bombarded Russian military depots at Perman, while another squadron of sea planes inflicted considerable damage to the Russian aerodrome at Papenholm.

  68. One of the latter was destroyed by fire from a Zeppelin quick-firing gun, while two sea planes were severely damaged by the fire from the battle cruisers and submarines.

  69. Three Austrian planes were reported shot down, while two of the Italians seemed severely damaged.

  70. A number of aeroplanes and sea planes rose to attack the Zeppelins which were flying high and bound westward.

  71. Three of the sea planes were shot down by the German guns, and the aviators were made prisoners.

  72. The sea planes had been convoyed to the port by a fleet of cruisers and destroyers which waited in the open sea for the return of the aeroplanes.

  73. The next day, two German sea planes attacked Calais, on the French side of the Channel, dropping bombs on the port and the encampments.

  74. The plane formed by the lamina in Eutamias makes an angle of approximately 90 degrees with the plane formed by the manubrium; in Tamias the two planes make an angle of approximately 60 degrees.

  75. Angle formed by planes of lamina and | approximately | approximately manubrium of malleus.

  76. Before perspective was understood and many planes could thus be created, there was no means of bringing out the principal actors except the device of a disproportionate enlargement.

  77. Instead of laying aside this garment, as so far it has done with the rest, it recommences, after the lapse of a certain time, another descent into the matter of the lower planes and a new incarnation begins.

  78. Footnote 164: One of the lowest sub-planes of Kâmaloka (Purgatory).

  79. In our planetary system the number of the invisible planes is seven.

  80. This source is not in the physical world, but on the finer planes of being, which will remain unknown to us, so long as our senses are incapable of responding to their vibrations.

  81. When it has developed all the self-conscious responsive powers in the physical body, it begins to develop those faculties which have as their organs of transmission the finer bodies, and as planes of vibration the invisible worlds.

  82. Those capable of following evolution on the planes of finer matter at once perceive, as it were, wide-spreading centres forming in the sea of divine Essence, which is projected by the Logos into the Universe.

  83. Footnote 257: The divine Essence incarnated in the matter of the lower planes of the Universe.

  84. Footnote 260: Everything, for instance, that concerns the planes of the planetary system, on which it has finished its evolution.

  85. The long ceiling and high wainscoting melt away from this leaded window in a perspective of wonderfully carved planes of antique oak, catching the light on lines and points of projection and quenching it in hollows of relief.

  86. I’m afraid some of our side planes are split.

  87. As it was, some of the planes had been folded back out of the way.

  88. And he’s set the port and starboard planes at different angles, which makes her go down this way.

  89. It was fortunate, in a way, that the craft was not manœuvering as an aeroplane, for the broad expanse of the wing and rudder planes would have offered so much resistance to the wind that the Comet might have turned turtle.

  90. Those planes haven’t been used lately, and they may be a trifle stiff.

  91. But still we wouldn’t be in much danger, for the automatic air planes would set when we began to fall too fast.

  92. Twenty-three other planes sent down, but under conditions which made it impossible to know certainly that they and their pilots had been destroyed.

  93. As he came up, three fighting planes of the fastest British type went up in chase of an imaginary enemy.

  94. Heard of one air battle between five English machines and ten Germans; five of the German machines were brought down and the remaining five headed for Berlin with two English planes after them.

  95. An attack, two duels, and two victories while the planes were traveling less than a quarter of a mile, at over 100 miles an hour!

  96. A battle between two planes is quite common, and one can look up at almost any time and see the aircraft bombs bursting around some Boche thousands of feet in the air.

  97. But, back at Voza, along came a flight of American planes which shot up the Marines and sank one of their vital boats.

  98. Before the first assault boats had hit the beach, a large flight of enemy carrier planes was on its way to attack the Marines and their supporting ships.

  99. Now, in October, there were repeated strikes against the Japanese planes at other Bougainville airfields.

  100. There was also a contingent of American soldiers, Seabees, and engineers, and cover from AirSol Marine planes under Brigadier General Field Harris.

  101. Six Marine planes had just landed at the newly completed Torokina airstrip.

  102. From Bougainville airfields, American planes could neutralize the crucial Japanese base of Rabaul less than 250 miles away on New Britain.

  103. Successive Japanese flights were beaten off; 26 enemy planes were shot down.

  104. He had taken a radio out of a grounded plane, moved to the frontlines, and helped control the attacking Marine planes on the spot.

  105. By 31 October, American planes had initially rendered the Japanese fields inoperable.

  106. The Japanese soon spotted the intruders, sent a few fighter planes to rake the beach, but that did no harm.

  107. Three days later, AirSols planes were staging there giving the strip the name “Green.

  108. Japanese war planes and ships summoned in urgency to smash the beachhead at Guadalcanal had to pass over Bougainville, the big island in the middle of the route from Rabaul.

  109. Then Japanese dive bombers came roaring in, but the Allied antiaircraft fire and Marine fighter planes (VMF-212) were enough to prevent hits on the transports or beach supplies.

  110. Then American planes could assure final neutralization of the Japanese airfields at Kahili, Buka, and Bonis airfields at the north and south ends of Bougainville.


  111. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "planes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.