Jumbo
Jumbo adjective - Unusually large.
Usage example: a jumbo jet
Small
Small adjective - Of a size that is less than average.
Usage example: a small cat who never weighed more than five pounds
Nearby Word: smallish
Both words in one sentence
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Weaponized Exhaust: A jumbo jet's engines overturned a taxi, a school bus, and a small plane.
- This has never happened in a big jumbo jet, but there was an early 1980s episode of Thats Incredible where they tell the story of a husband-and-wife who went up in his small plane.
Source: Crash Course Landing -
Howlin' Mad Murdock from The A-Team was most certainly one of these: he flew a small jet, a jumbo jet, a biplane, many small passenger planes, a jetpack, and untold numbers of helicopters over the course of the series.
Source: Ace Pilot
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