How to Use airfield in a Sentence

airfield

noun

• The air above the airfield was thick was smoke as sirens filled the air after the blast.
  — Katie Wadington, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2021
• On Wednesday, a stream of military planes took off from the airfield as evacuees lined up on the tarmac.
  — Monika Scislowska, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• Ukraine has been waging its own campaign of drone strikes deep inside Russia, setting airfields and oil depots ablaze.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024
• About 5,000 people were awaiting flights on the airfield, McKenzie said.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2021
• At the airfield’s civilian entrance, a few families lingered, sitting near one another in the divider bisecting the main thoroughfare.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• The suspect had reportedly stolen an airport vehicle and driven onto the airfield prior to being taken into custody.
  — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2021
• The bottleneck at the airfield threatened to set off another humanitarian crisis.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• About 5,000 evacuees, and a similar number of American troops, were on the airfield Friday along with cargo jets and planes.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2021
• At the Kabul airport itself, women, babies and small children waited in scorching temperatures around the airfield without protection from the sun.
  — Maeve Reston, CNN, 21 Aug. 2021
• The airfield plays a small role in the history of 9/11.
  — Ben Brasch, ajc, 10 Sep. 2021
• The plane was found at the end of runway 23, between the airfield and Race Lane.
  — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
• New Haven owns the airport, but a portion of the airfield is in East Haven.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2022
• Why not sip a drink and enjoy the airfield views through the floor to ceiling windwows that run the length of the lounge?
  — Michele Robson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• At one point, after a handful of lessons, the two told Garza that some friends had come to the airfield to meet him.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2021
• The assembly of the roof had to take place on an empty airfield.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• The next morning, Coleman and the mechanic did a test run over the airfield.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
• The young troops stood between the masses and the airfield, forming a human wall.
  — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
• The Prince and Princess of Wales, both 42, also spent time in the clubhouse with George at the airfield, according to the outlet.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
• Video footage shared on Telegram appeared to show a large fire and massive plumes of dark smoke at the airfield.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• The passenger walked out onto the wing of the plane and slid down onto the airfield, police said.
  — Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2022
• The battlefield was built on a flat airfield that’s about the size of three football fields outside of Prague.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 1 Mar. 2023
• The fall of Saigon sequence at the end of the first episode was filmed on an airfield affiliated with the Thai Army.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 June 2024
• The pilot looks ahead and down, and sees the edge of the airfield at an angle of declination of 27.9 degrees.
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022
• The records were set at an airfield in Örebro, Sweden, in the early hours of Thursday, June 27.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 July 2024
• Now, Stars and Stripes reports that the brigade has renamed its airfield to honor the two pilots.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2023
• She is being given access to secure areas of the airfield to aid in the search.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• Nelson had been stationed at the airfield that had been built on her property and the two were close friends.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• The airbase, which is one of the busiest military airfields in the U.K., is home to a number of frontline squadrons and training units.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Sheraton and a smattering of hotels at the southeast corner of the airfield stood in the way.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 3 Sep. 2021
• The crew landed at an airfield and escaped, El Mundo reported.
  — Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024