landing strip
Example Sentences
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The crowd gathered along the skydiving resort’s landing strip roared.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2023
On Sunday, the 44-year-old captain met the same fate as her husband when the propeller plane she was co-piloting crashed near the landing strip in Pokhara, a vacation destination.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2023
“Think of it like an airport with a grass landing strip, versus an airport with a concrete runway,” Mueller said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
A long stretch of calm water was all the landing strip this behemoth needed to reach populous seaports in the United States and Europe or exotic destinations like Honolulu, Fiji and Java.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021
But there were no airplanes anywhere, nor any evidence of a landing strip.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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