airfield

Example Sentences

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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

A man has died while taking part in a skydive at an airfield in Devon.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

The United States can count on plenty of other military assets in the region, including ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf, and the Baledogle airfield in Somalia.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

So far, it has confirmed five locations including Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base, an airfield known as La Carlota and Port La Guaira, Caracas' main conduit to the Caribbean Sea.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

Each morning they’d trek to the airfield with one woman breaking snow up to her waist for the rest of the line.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein