airstrip

Example Sentences

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Tessalit serves as a strategic base due to its geographical location and features a well-maintained airstrip capable of accommodating helicopters and other large military aircraft.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Today it is home to an empty airstrip and the rusty remains of buildings, vehicles and hundreds of fuel drums, nicknamed American flowers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said the bodies had been transferred to a nearby airstrip after the landslide in Marakwet East late on Friday night.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

Because Alligator Alcatraz is housed near an airstrip, he said the facility is intended to facilitate quick deportations.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

The theater consisted of a few dozen folding chairs arranged before a bedsheet or the blank wall of a vacant hangar out near the airstrip.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris