PLANE in a Sentence

Learn PLANE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
182 example sentences for PLANE, such as:
1. I looked towards the plane.
2. It is expensive to travel by plane.
3. A mill to cut up lumber and plane it.
4. Our plane is flying above the clouds.
5. The plane disappeared behind a cloud.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PLANE
plane
 v.  travel on the surface of water
 n.  a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  A mill to cut up lumber and plane it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  She touched his ear, smoothed the plane of his solid jaw, and, turning away again, concentrated upon liking his town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning like an ape.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  Unhinge the lower jaw, and the side view of this skull is as the side of a moderately inclined plane resting throughout on a level base.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
5  All afternoon, wherever one went in the house, one could hear the panting wheeze of the saw or the pleasant purring of the plane.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
6  Grandmother began to make the icing for a chocolate cake, and Otto again filled the house with the exciting, expectant song of the plane.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
7  He was afraid to make an open declaration of his concern, because he dreaded to place some unscrupulous confidant upon the high plane of the unconfessed from which elevation he could be derided.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  His body was coiled up on this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL
9  The exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
10  This inclined plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die of thirst, but the eye is gratified.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
11  To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did not mount by the inclined plane for watering.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
12  This fragment of the vaulting, partly submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this plane, he was safe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
13  Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
14  A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane of the watering-place, was on the shore.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
15  Debray was admitted to the house for this grand ceremony, but on the same plane with every one else, and without any particular privilege.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
Example Sentence: (156 in 11 pages)
1  Above him an invisible plane droned through the night sky.
2  Our plane is flying above the clouds.
3  An eyewitness account described the plane as a "fireball".
4  I looked towards the plane.
5  They diverted the plane to another airport because of the weather.
6  Wreckage from the plane was scattered over a wide area.
7  The plane banked, and circled back toward us.
8  It is expensive to travel by plane.
9  The quickest means of travel is by plane.
10  It was designed to be a troop transport plane.
11  Investigators are searching the wreckage of the plane to try to find the cause of the tragedy.
12  The Pentagon refused to divulge what type of plane it was.
13  From the plane we had a bird's eye view of London.
14  The single-engine plane landed in western Arizona.
15  The plane disappeared behind a cloud.