landed
Example Sentences
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Tens of thousands of emigrants from Ireland, desperate to escape the famine ravaging their home country, landed in 1847 at the Grosse Île quarantine station in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
A single mother from Trinidad landed a six-figure deal for a Random House memoir.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
"Thirty-three planes landed in one hour. Twenty-eight is supposed to be our limit!"
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
They worked on the Cassini/Huygens mission that explored Saturn and landed a small probe in 2005 on Titan’s surface that fed back data for 72 minutes before it conked out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
He spends every summer at his cottage in Nantucket, and this year Andre landed the sweet gig of supervising his spoiled cat for fifty dollars a day the whole time he’s away.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
