How to Use air base in a Sentence

air base

noun

• The first stop for Cohen and his colleagues was the Hatzor air base.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• In the first days of 2020, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at an Iraqi air base housing U.S. troops.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
• In another part of Iraq, U.S. forces at the al-Harir air base destroyed a drone.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Outside the air base today, the burn pit has been planted over with green grass, but the fields around it look dead.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• My editor was there at the air base with us for that reason.
  — Vulture, 2 June 2022
• Bolsonaro took off from Brasília’s air base in a Brazilian Air Force plane.
  — Camilo Rocha, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
• Planes, hangars and housing at the air base suffered heavy damage.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2022
• As the war churned on, the small atoll became a major U.S. air base, and some field cemeteries were paved over.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2022
• In the strike on the Russian air base, Ukrainian forces destroyed eight fighter jets.
  — Eric Schmitt, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2022
• Bucha was a target from the start of the war, because of the Hostomel military air base, less than three miles from my house.
  — Elena Rubashevska, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2022
• Nelly fell in love with a young Austrian Nazi and had worked for a year on a German air base.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2022
• Instead of heading back, Rooster goes out to find Maverick alive and the pair steal an F-14 from the air base.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• The Engels air base, a hub for Russia’s fleet of strategic bombers, has been used to launch air raids and missile strikes on Ukraine.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
• By 2018, the next big project at Lop Nur was the rapid expansion of a giant air base whose main runway was three miles long.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Just over a week ago, explosions rocked the Russians’ Saki air base on Crimea and destroyed planes on the ground.
  — Paul Byrne, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2022
• Just over a week ago, explosions rocked the Russians' Saki air base on Crimea and destroyed planes on the ground.
  — Paul Byrne, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
• Yet none of this advice stopped the president from abandoning the Bagram air base.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
• The strike at the Engels air base in Saratov region, a hub for Russia’s strategic bombers, is the second this month.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2022
• One drone packed with explosives landed on a barracks at the Erbil air base in Iraq on Oct. 25.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• That discoloration wasn't seen in earlier images of the aircraft at the air base.
  — Susie Blann, ajc, 1 Mar. 2023
• The attacks in Crimea appear to have begun in earnest on Aug. 9 with a strike on the Saki air base in which eight fighter jets were destroyed.
  — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
• The massive bust was raised by forklift onto a DC8 at an American air base in Italy.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2021
• The ministry also said that no aircraft were damaged and that there were no injuries on the Russian air base there.
  — Yuliya Chernova, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2022
• The blasts came less than two weeks after a Ukrainian strike on a Russian air base in Crimea destroyed eight fighter jets.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• Rather than thrusting forward to the heart of the capital, Russian troops at the air base were stuck fighting for their survival.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022
• But this week the war entered a dramatic, new phase in the south, and a series of explosions at the Russian air base in Crimea is just one part of it.
  — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2022
• Only four bombers safely returned to their air base in England.
  — Thallman, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
• The anchor noted that the plane flew from the Polish air base in Rzeszow which serves as a hub for Western arms deliveries to Ukraine.
  — Raf Casert and Samuel Petrequin, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2023
• His family settled in Tachikawa, the site of a military air base outside Tokyo.
  — Tim Page, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• The strikes followed a drone attack by the groups on Irbil air base earlier in the day that injured three service members.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024