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
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
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
“The landing strip is too soft to use tomorrow. Maybe it’ll start raining again before the field dries out.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
