landing strip
Example Sentences
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Now, where the old landing strip was, you’ll find the parking lot for the zoo.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023
The twin-engine propeller plane she was co-piloting crashed about a mile from the landing strip at a newly built airport in Pokhara, a Himalayan vacation destination.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2023
“It is supposed to be a landing strip for us, but they’ve taken it over,” Junior Hekurari Yanomami, president of the Yanomami and Ye’kwana Indigenous Health Council, said angrily in an interview in his office.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2022
On the landing strip, children with moms and grandmothers gathered to greet Santa, played by pilot Ralph Hoover.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2021
We were camped at an old landing strip just north of Tam Ky and less than a thousand meters from Highway 1.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
