landing strip
Example Sentences
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“Think of it like an airport with a grass landing strip, versus an airport with a concrete runway,” Mueller said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
Open since 2017, Magazzino has been a landing strip in the United States for Arte Povera and other postwar and contemporary Italian work.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
A long stretch of calm water was all the landing strip this behemoth needed to reach populous seaports in the United States and Europe or destinations like Honolulu, Fiji and Java.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
A long stretch of calm water was all the landing strip this behemoth needed to reach populous seaports in the United States and Europe or exotic destinations like Honolulu, Fiji and Java.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021
And Galya Dokutovich, the navigator who’d been run over while lying on a landing strip in the dark, came back to the 588th late in 1942.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
