landing strip
Example Sentences
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“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 small group of people stood together in near silence, some recording video as the aircraft taxied from the landing strip and rolled to a halt.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2022
The Naval Air Station Whidbey Island training takes place at both an Oak Harbor landing strip and a field near Coupeville, where crews simulate landing on ships by circling around and performing brief touchdowns.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2022
Open since 2017, Magazzino has been a landing strip in the United States for Arte Povera and other postwar and contemporary Italian work.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
And Galya Dokutovich, the navigator who’d been run over while lying on a landing strip in the dark, came back to the 588th late in 1942.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
