airfield

Example Sentences

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The well-heeled enthusiast will be able to drive an hour from Los Angeles, or land at the nearby airfield or helipad, grab their car from the garage and burn rubber at Willow Springs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

"The fire in the hangar has now been extinguished, and the airfield has been closed," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Over the preceding several years, the Soviet Union and Cuba had grown involved in Grenada, building military facilities, providing arms, and building an airfield capable of handling military aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Though they could have survived the Holocaust by remaining in Palestine, they instead chose to travel through the Sinai Desert and then to a liberated airfield in Italy before departing on their mission.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

At first, the shocked ground crew waiting back at the intermediate airfield had no way of knowing who’d been killed until the surviving aircraft returned.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein