crash-land
verb
crash-landed; crash-landing; crash-lands
: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft
: to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft
crash landing
noun
Examples of crash-land in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Also, unfriendly extraterrestrials have crash-landed nearby.
—
Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2024
Two people have been rescued after a small plane that took off from Florida crash-landed in the waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.
—Anselm Gibbs, ABC News, 22 June 2024
During the ordeal, Kennedy and Christina were nearly pushed by strong currents into a boulder, crash-landed on a beach and at several points were plunged underwater.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
One of the bombs crash-landed, sustaining critical damage.
—Rebecca Messina, theweek, 25 Apr. 2024
The Syfy series, introduced in 2019, casts Tudyk as the pizza-loving, profanity-spewing title character who crash-lands in rural America on a mission to destroy humanity.
—Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
As on most other rocky planets, the water on Mercury probably came from asteroids that crash-landed onto the surface.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
But not before one carload of Nazis flies off the bridge and crash-lands in front of them.
—Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
Plane Jane is revealing Bob the Drag Queen's reaction to the season 16 queen crash-landing her gleeful RuPaul's Drag Race reign of mischief on Madonna's runway last month.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2024
Two people have been rescued after a small plane that took off from Florida crash-landed in the waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.
—Anselm Gibbs, ABC News, 22 June 2024
During the ordeal, Kennedy and Christina were nearly pushed by strong currents into a boulder, crash-landed on a beach and at several points were plunged underwater.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
One of the bombs crash-landed, sustaining critical damage.
—Rebecca Messina, theweek, 25 Apr. 2024
The Syfy series, introduced in 2019, casts Tudyk as the pizza-loving, profanity-spewing title character who crash-lands in rural America on a mission to destroy humanity.
—Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
As on most other rocky planets, the water on Mercury probably came from asteroids that crash-landed onto the surface.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
But not before one carload of Nazis flies off the bridge and crash-lands in front of them.
—Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
Plane Jane is revealing Bob the Drag Queen's reaction to the season 16 queen crash-landing her gleeful RuPaul's Drag Race reign of mischief on Madonna's runway last month.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'crash-land.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Dictionary Entries Near crash-land
Cite this Entry
“Crash-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crash-land. Accessed 16 Jul. 2024.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share