airstrip

Example Sentences

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That October, intelligence agents transported the oil executives from the Helicoide jail in Caracas to an airstrip on a tiny Caribbean island in the Grenadines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 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

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

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

The facility went up on a former airstrip in eight days and will have an initial capacity of 3,000 detainees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2025

But the computers would be constructed in the modern buildings he had seen opposite the airstrip.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz