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How to use hangar in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, verb

Hangar means a large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept. Example: “The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs.”

Examples of hangar by meaning

nounA large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept.

  • The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs.
  • By the side of it ran an open hangar upheld by a score of rough tarred posts.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9

More sentences with hangar

  • Two forties aircraft sat forgotten in the hangar until they were rediscovered by two trespassing teens.From the entry forties
  • At any rate, no aircraft can leave this hangar until no fewer than three inspectors have signed off on it.From the entry at any rate
  • When they hit cruisers, they use hangar spam to mow down corvettes and bastions.2021 December 21, AdamZeeper, “Countering artillery battleships”, in reddit.com. From the entry megacannon
  • She'd come back from the hangar with Clint and some shop towels for Bendix's wound.2013, John Sandrolini, One for Our Baby. From the entry lubricant
  • Bruce pushed the ultralight out of the hangar; I climbed in and fastened the lap-sash seatbelt.2012, S Bailey, J Bailey, Head Over Heels: A Story Of Tragedy, Triumph and Romance in the Australian Bush, unnumbered page. From the entry lap sash seatbelt
  • Explosions in the hangar therefore might have been either detonations of torpedoes or gasoline vapor explosions.1947 October 30, Bureau of Ships, “SECTION III - DISCUSSION”, in U.S.S. Princeton (CVL23): Loss in Action, Battle for Leyte Gulf, 24…. From the entry gas
  • The hangar was as silent as—well, as a tomb.2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 8, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books…. From the entry lizard brain
  • But the most aircraftlike thing about the Davis was its place of assembly, an airplane hangar in Van Nuys, Calif.2009 September 27, Phil Patton, “A Dreamer’s Machine, More Promise Than Reality”, in New York Times. From the entry aircraftlike
  • At a hangar in Nashua, with chatty Bill and chatless Chelsea, Hillary tried to purloin more of the Obama message.2008 January 6, Maureen Dowd, “Voting for a Smile”, in New York Times. From the entry chatless
  • Imagine playing a venue the size of an aircraft hangar without your tiny amps miced up through the PA!2003, Sleazegrinder, Gigs from Hell: True Tales of Rock and Roll Gone Wrong, page 104. From the entry mic
  • Everything, however, including the peely mix-and-match wallpaper, is just made to appear old—even the chenille hangars, pillows and cuddly teddy bears.1999 December, “A Special Section for the Child at Heart”, in Los Angeles, volume 44, number 12, Los Angeles, Calif., section “Auntie…. From the entry peely
  • I don't want to get into hangar pilot stories because I'll forget what I came here to talk to you about.1986, Society of Experimental Test Pilots (contributor), Cockpit, page 4. From the entry hangar pilot
  • A few, who might be called the Typhoid Marys of this disease, are not much more than hangar pilots.1967, Robert Blodget, “Follow Me Through”, in Flying Magazine, volume 80, number 5, page 88. From the entry hangar pilot
  • In many places semiunderground shops and hangars were built with roofs sodded over and planted with vegetation for concealment.1947, United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Reports: Pacific War (volume 15, page 54). From the entry semiunderground
  • SAM-E’s warning about a hostile intent in the system, controlling life support and even the hangar bay doors, kept her from obeying that instinct.2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 8, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books…. From the entry lizard brain
  • The gyrobus touched down on the commercial side of the spaceport, not far from a row of hangars where several shuttles were parked.2007 December, Allen Steele, “Galaxy Blues”, in Asimov's Science Fiction, volume 31, number 12, →ISSN, page 102. From the entry gyrobus
  • During my second week here I got a job with the Ryan Company, working in the hangar half-days, Saturdays and Sundays, as a grease-monkey.1929 January, Alan Gibson, quotee, “A Byrd Applicant Take to the Air”, in Boys' Life, volume 19, number 1, New York, N. Y.: Boy Scouts of…. From the entry grease-monkey
  • There was nothing for it but to install the three duckbills in the travelling platypusary in one of the Pan American hangars and hope for the best.1980, David Howells Fleay, Paradoxical Platypus: Hobnobbing with Duckbills, page 106. From the entry platypusary
  • Each of the six torpedo planes spotted in the hangar was armed with one Mark 13, torpex-loaded torpedo and was fully gassed, including auxiliary wing tanks.1947 October 30, Bureau of Ships, “SECTION III - DISCUSSION”, in U.S.S. Princeton (CVL23): Loss in Action, Battle for Leyte Gulf, 24…. From the entry gas

Meaning of hangar

  1. noun A large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept.
  2. noun A covered shed for carriages.
  3. verb To store (an aircraft) in a hangar.

Full definition of hangar

Questions about hangar in a sentence

How do you use hangar in a sentence?
Hangar is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs.”
What is a short sentence with hangar?
“The hangar was as silent as—well, as a tomb.”
What does hangar mean?
Hangar means a large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hangar (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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