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

If a local airfield wasn’t available, a makeshift one would need to be set up to fly equipment in and the material out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

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

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

The government says its facilities include an airfield and deep-water port, as well as advanced communications and surveillance capabilities.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

This was the moment when they were brought by a flying ambulance back to their own airfield, and Valentin Markov lifted Galya out of the plane himself and carried her to safety.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein