Examples
“But as the planetary idiom spreads, we may well be taxiing in that direction.”
“The taxiing aircraft smashed into some brickwork after lurching to avoid Dad as he inattentively wheeled a bicycle across the airfield.”
The Guardian: My dad, the revolutionary disciple of indie rock
“April 2011: Wing of taxiing Air France A380 superjumbo jet smashes into tail of Comair commuter jet at Kennedy International Airport in New York.”
“A Boeing 777 is scheduled to land at JFK; it touches down according to plan and as it begins taxiing to the terminal it suddenly shuts down, all lights go out, no communication coming from the plane.”
“The Strain” by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (William Morrow, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog
“Tara paused, staring through the glass at a plane taxiing down the runway.”
“At Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, while waiting for the plane to start taxiing for take off, I glanced at the next plane over and was surprised to read on the engine that it was powered by biofuel.”
The Huffington Post: Astrid Caldas: Sustainability Is in the Air
“That makes the areas around gates cramped, forcing planes to spend more time taxiing than they otherwise would.”
“Some guy would be running from her, taxiing quickly to another club.”
The Huffington Post: How the John Edwards Affair Ended Up in the Enquirer
“The wing tip of one of its flagship A380 superjumbos clipped a building during taxiing.”
“The company was forced to borrow an A380 superjumbo from Korean Air Lines Co. after the aircraft flown in for the show snagged an airport building while taxiing Sunday, damaging a wing tip.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘taxiing’.
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TRAN - air traffic control
data link communi..., ADS-C agreement, AIRMET information, obstacle, problematic use o..., change-over point, ATS route, transition altitude, transition level, automatic depende..., automatic termina..., unidentified airc... and 119 more...
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respelt
'He spent the greater part of his life campaigning to have respelt those words that LOOK as though they are spelt wrongly but aren't.'
Re Otto Tibbit's father, fourteen times Scrabble champio...skiing, vacuum, freest, eczema, gnu, diarrhoea, taxiing, piing, safariing, qamchiing, dooziing, hongiing and 49 more...
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I didn't expect to see THAT letter do...
aa, savvy, divvy, powwow, matchhead, skiing, hajj, trekking, continuum, vacuum, bathhouse, fishhook and 37 more...
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Rare letter combos: double-vowel (*aa...
aa, radii, skiing, vacuum, continuum, aardvark, baa, taxiing, alibiing, naan, bazaar, denarii and 1 more...
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Words & Phrases #2 (In Practice)
A list of new English words that I've come across.
egress, denote, tweak, think outside the..., scramble, predominantly, inflate, verdict, take on, diligent, potable, arbitrary and 52 more...
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Construction Glossary #1 (New)
This is a list of construction related terms and words.
shotcrete, sediment control, sandwich panel, girder, joist, muster point, tile drainage, retrofit, taxiing, asbestos, entourage, power plant
Tweets
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fbharjo this can be taxing Mar 29, 2008