Sentence examples for plane against from inspiring English sources

If that doesn't work, then send a plane against something.

The brush makes its slow negotiations, edge against edge, plane against plane.

To keep passengers on a plane against their will is unacceptable, especially when Gatwick airport said it could have taken them into its terminal.

The group of 16 students and two teachers was flying back from Barcelona to Düsseldorf when, it is believed, co-pilot Andreas Lubitz crashed the plane against a mountain in France.

In the past, laser beams have been used successfully against stationary targets from stationary platforms, but in this test the beam was directed from a plane against a moving target, a much more challenging feat.

A midair dogfight is depicted by three puppeteers, each holding a piece of a skeletally rendered plane; against the sound effects of gunnery and explosions, the puppeteers, with the swooping arm movements of manual ballet, separate the wings of the plane from the fuselage and rejoin them, again and again.

But Midland launches fighter planes against the laser, and it has to retreat.

He created striking architectural models of imaginary structures, and austere geometric paintings of white planes against white backgrounds.

Mr. Mica said that he would seek immediate federal financing to protect commercial planes against terrorist missiles.

Last year, though Boeing continued to turn out roughly twice as many planes, Airbus had signed orders for 476 planes, against 391 for Boeing.

Another, very different in structure, lays out a broad field of pastel Cubist planes against a corner of realistic old houses in black and white.