airstrip
Example Sentences
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That October, intelligence agents transported the oil executives from the Helicoide jail in Caracas to an airstrip on a tiny Caribbean island in the Grenadines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
The pass was close to Chushul airstrip, which was "the primary nervous centre at a time when road network connecting the region with the rest of India was largely absent", Yadav says.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
In the 1970s, building an airstrip on the high grasslands of Bangda, near India’s northeastern border, involved 16,000 people and 89 deaths.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
The informant also sent Sánchez a video of a Cessna landing on a rudimentary airstrip near the mine.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Frank looked down and saw the airstrip riddled with craters like a piece of burning Swiss cheese.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
