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
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
“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
We cleared some ground for a landing strip, and then the planes began landing to make their deliveries.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
