How to Use air marshal in a Sentence

air marshal

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  • There was no word on the nature of the injuries to the flight attendant and air marshal.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The air marshal was able to detain the suspect and police helped to remove him from the plane.
    — Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2021
  • He was wrestled down by the flight’s two air marshals and crew members.
    — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The flight attendants then asked the federal air marshals on the flight to help with Beach.
    — Fox News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Indeed, the same could be said for the entire air marshal service.
    — John Mueller, Vox, 4 Aug. 2018
  • While crown prince, the king made his pet poodle, since deceased, an air marshal.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Michael LaFrance joined the air marshals after 9/11 and now helps run the agency's training center.
    — CBS News, 11 May 2018
  • Allison said of how many in-flight terror plots have been stopped by air marshals.
    — CBS News, 11 May 2018
  • If everything else fails, the air marshal is there to take down anything that may happen.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 17 May 2018
  • Police did not say if the flight attendant or air marshal were injured in the assault.
    — al, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Jones got up from his seat several times during the flight and made three attempts to go to the front of the plane and open the cockpit door, an air marshal wrote in an affidavit.
    — Rashard Rose, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • There were two federal air marshals among the 178 people onboard the plane, according to ABC.
    — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2018
  • Later that year, Skinner left the Capitol Police and became an air marshal.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Chief Ronny Potts, a former air marshal, patrols schools with the help of three reserve officers.
    — Diane Smith and Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 4 June 2018
  • The hijackers prepared for the operation in Afghanistan, where some learned to hijack planes and disarm air marshals.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
  • When a person is placed on the list, a team of air marshals is placed on the person’s next flight, according to the Globe, and the team receives a list of personal information about the target.
    — Edmund Demarche, Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • The charges against Martucci were later dropped, but he was still suspended from his job as a federal air marshal.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The air marshal suffered minor injuries and did not need medical attention, the TSA said.
    — Ian Duncan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • An affidavit from a federal air marshal said that Alani tampered with the plane in hopes of obtaining overtime pay.
    — NBC News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Meisel later was a police officer in Shawnee, Okla., and began work as a federal air marshal in Dallas in 2002.
    — Anthony Lonetree, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The 9/11 attacks saw changes inside the airplane too, with cockpits being sealed and locked to prevent passengers from entering and an increase of air marshals on flights.
    — Andrew O'Reilly | Fox News, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Two undercover air marshals sat beside them during the flight.
    — The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
  • He was indicted on two counts of assaulting a flight attendant and a federal air marshal in January of last year.
    — Hyeyoon Alyssa Choi, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Several air marshals had to come out from undercover to help deal with her, prosecutors said.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2019
  • The pilot’s door has been reinforced and is locked, air marshals are frequently in attendance, and for all our irritation, the TSA screens millions of passengers each day.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • If the cabin crew has difficulty restoring order, flights often have air marshals and non-working crew members flying to their next post on board who will intervene to help.
    — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2019
  • But interviews with more than two dozen former and current federal air marshals describe an agency in crisis.
    — Ron Nixon, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Officials did not provide information on the conditions of the flight attendant and air marshal.
    — NBC News, 10 Dec. 2021
  • If a situation can’t be controlled by the flight attendant, passengers, or an on-board air marshal, the pilot will be quickly notified.
    — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2019
  • The air marshal asks the passenger to sit down numerous times, and the individual briefly complies after initially appearing to refuse.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 10 Dec. 2021

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