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Plural of shuttle

regular plural

The plural of shuttle is shuttles.

Forms of shuttle

Singularshuttle /ˈʃʌtəl/
Pluralshuttles
Countablecountable

Shuttles in a sentence

  • You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit.2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20
  • The city is providing special event shuttles on the Fourth of July.From the entry special event
  • Shuttles will depart every 18 minutes,” BART said in a 2:38 p.m.2023 February 19, Michelle Watson, “Bay Area Rapid Transit running limited service to Oakland Airport due to power outage”, in CNN. From the entry pst
  • The launchmaster turned to Lon then, saluted, and said, "All shuttles aboard, sir.2011, Rick Shelley, Lieutenant Colonel. From the entry launchmaster
  • Meanwhile, on those toppest floors, the eager sun, aslant, shuttles the mounting roar.1905, “New York from the Flatiron”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume 33, page 389. From the entry toppest

Meaning of shuttle

  1. noun A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
  2. noun The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
  3. noun A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.

Full definition of shuttle

Questions about the plural of shuttle

What is the plural of shuttle?
The plural of shuttle is shuttles.
Is shuttle countable?
Shuttle is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shuttle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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