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airstrip

noun as in airport

noun as in landing strip

noun as in runway

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Example Sentences

Van Linge says he was able to verify that the videos from Lutsk were likely genuine, because the airstrip and buildings were recognizable and could be compared against older footage.

From Time

The cart crossed a wooden bridge linking the eastern part of the island with the airstrip on the west.

A straight 24-hour push brought them from the summit down to the airstrip at the 7,300-foot Kahiltna base camp.

Our puddle-jumper lands on a small airstrip lined with solar panels.

Often we’d spend longs days at the Toledo Airport, a tiny municipal airstrip where he and his friends would parachute out of small, dubious, single-engined airplanes while I would pack parachutes.

From Ozy

But as the decades passed, airplanes replaced steamboats and folks abandoned Old Bettles to live near the airstrip.

The Cessna landed like a feather on Bettles Field, a long, flat airstrip built by the Navy during World War II.

Growing up in Lukla, Pasang watched planes land at the airstrip near her village.

It was late 1977 when the DC-3 lowered its landing gear onto a jungle airstrip, one of dozens on the Caribbean side of Colombia.

Her body had been found along an abandoned airstrip access road just 30 yards from her host family's home.

The engineer tapped on the microphone, and the tap, greatly amplified, reverberated across the airstrip.

Then the firing area was passed and the jeep sped along next to the miles-long black, oiled path of the airstrip.

At Umiat (June 25, 1952), ptarmigan were using seven dusting pits on the shoulder of the airstrip.

There, on the proving ground, they watched a big transport-plane land on a makeshift airstrip.

He saw several flocks of ducks including one containing "about a dozen ducks" at ponds along a roadway and at an airstrip.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to airstrip, such as: airfield, installation, runway, airdrome, hangar, and heliport.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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