airstrip
Example Sentences
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Israeli forces established a makeshift base using an old airstrip in Iraq early in the war against Iran, two security officials told AFP, confirming a report by the Wall Street Journal.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
SIRTE, Libya—The twin-turboprop plane carved a line down through the sky and touched down at a desert airstrip here near Libya’s Mediterranean coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Today it is home to an empty airstrip and the rusty remains of buildings, vehicles and hundreds of fuel drums, nicknamed American flowers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
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
The theater consisted of a few dozen folding chairs arranged before a bedsheet or the blank wall of a vacant hangar out near the airstrip.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
