How to Use biplane in a Sentence

biplane

noun
  • That's how the stacked wings of the World War One biplane were born.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
  • Take to the skies in the nose of a 1930 New Standard four-passenger biplane?
    — Eric Kurhi, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2017
  • So when he was offered the chance this week to take a ride in a 1929 biplane, he was thrilled at the chance to thread the clouds once again.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2018
  • The open-cockpit biplane sliced into the brush, spun, and crashed to a cacophonous stop some 15 to 20 feet from the lake.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2021
  • The Wright brothers knew that a monoplane may have less drag, but a biplane was stronger.
    — Walter J. Boyne and Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2021
  • The ’Davis Gun’ was not successful in putting big guns on biplanes.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, a biplane flies over and around the mountain searching for signs of life.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • Above is The Evening Sun Curtiss biplane, the first airplane used by a paper to cover the news.
    — baltimoresun.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Above is The Evening Sun Curtiss biplane, the first airplane used by a paper to cover the news.
    — baltimoresun.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The young woman in the cockpit of the biplane studied the control panel, then flipped a switch and signaled to the ground crew.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
  • As the World War I-surplus biplane picked up speed, the pilot eased back on the stick and gently climbed into the air.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Not since her first ride in a biplane in 1919, when the pilot did loop-de-loops to terrify her.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2021
  • And what could be more road-car-like than not having a gigantic biplane attached to the back of a car?
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Standing on a biplane while flying over a canyon in South Africa is a typical day in the life of Cruise.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The rear end flies a tall biplane setup with a large wing perched above a second smaller airfoil.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
  • As seen in the film’s trailer, the key stunt of this chapter looks to involve Tom Cruise hanging off the side of a 20th century biplane.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 29 Mar. 2025
  • In the scene from the Alfred Hitchcock suspense film, Cary Grant is pursued by a crop-dusting biplane.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
  • That man, George Wentworth, owed the elder Mason for building him a biplane.
    — Jason Pohl, azcentral, 4 July 2018
  • On the left are images of a farmer, grapevines, barn and tractor with a biplane from Ramona Airport flying overhead.
    — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Then there was this couple in North Carolina flying in their biplane, like that Snoopy open plane, and the pilot and the passenger both have the mug out up in the air.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 30 Jan. 2025
  • You will neither get gunned down by Snoopy in a biplane, nor will a helicopter land on the freeway to give your parents a ticket.
    — Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Hammontree’s new seaplane was a biplane with two open seats.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • According to Army records, Kelly flew his biplane for about five minutes and made a hard landing.
    — From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Others shoot Black people while a biplane rains gunfire and firebombs from above.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
  • Naderi honors the grit and wits of such kids, but the distance is considerable between Amiro’s life and one that would put him in a biplane for places unknown.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The video shows a biplane soaring over warships of the U.S. Navy and creating an instantaneous wall of smoke large enough to hide a fleet behind.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Rolling down the deck, the biplane plunged towards the water, its wheels dipping into the sea before ascending and landing on the nearby shore.
    — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2018
  • By the morning of June 1, whites were using biplanes to drop incendiary bombs over the neighborhood.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 1 June 2017
  • As Johnson was evening the match with a 6-1 second-set triumph, Grier dipped the biplane low over the crowd so that Saxe, leaning out an open cockpit door, could get an ideal view.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Like a living biplane, Microraptor boasted two sets of wings — that’s four in total, one each on its hind and forelimbs.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023

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