airdrome

Example Sentences

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At Brussels airport, 60% of flights were canceled, while the Charleroi airdrome was shut down.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2022

After more than twelve hours in the air, they made an emergency landing on Sicily, at an airdrome held by British forces.

From Time • Jan. 6, 2016

The setting, at the height of World War II, is a hotel in Lincolnshire, a gathering spot for Royal Air Force  fighters stationed at a nearby airdrome.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2014

When they had gone, the Far East Air Force's main airdrome was a wreckage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat- topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller