How to Use airlift in a Sentence

airlift

noun

• Halvorsen returned to the Berlin airlift for a few more weeks.
  — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
• His work is just one example of the largest supply effort since the Cold War and the Berlin airlift.
  — NBC News, 11 Mar. 2022
• After the airlift, Halvorsen remained in the Air Force.
  — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
• The men heaped praise on Qatar for its role in the airlift; more people transited through the country than any other.
  — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
• Tens of thousands sought to flee the country as a result in a harrowing airlift.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2021
• Biden has set Tuesday as the deadline for completing the airlift.
  — Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• By the time a medical airlift was clear for takeoff from Juneau, the medicine had begun working.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2022
• The Taliban pledged that once the airlift was complete, Afghans with travel documents would be free to leave the country.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2021
• Some have caught coveted seats on emergency airlifts and boats across the Red Sea.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• Fires in Greece caused wartime-scale airlifts of tourists and ammunition depots to explode.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• The media wanted to cheerlead the airlift and the evacuees, so criticism of the Biden admin’s botch of a withdrawal has now been muted.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 Sep. 2021
• Those memories were on Khogyani's mind when he was given permission in August to join the airlift.
  — John Blake, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
• Together the two campaigns formed the largest airlift in history.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• The risk of war receded, thanks in part to a creative response: an airlift that, for nearly a year, brought food and fuel to the two and a half million residents of West Berlin.
  — Jeffrey Frank, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2022
• Indeed, since the August airlift, that sense of the Taliban as fait accompli, and of trying to find some way of reconciling with the group, is growing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• Thursday’s flight out is the first such large-scale air departure of Afghans since a U.S. airlift concluded with the departure of foreign forces from Afghanistan just over a week ago.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• The extra airlift comes at a time that visitor count to the gateway to the Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks is softening.
  — Doug Gollan, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Even so, the airlift continued Thursday, though the number of evacuees fell for a second day as the terror attack and further threats kept people away..
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• In Sanford alone, law enforcement dispatched three airlift units and at least a dozen ambulances.
  — Nicki Brown, CNN, 19 Nov. 2022
• Whatever the overall success rate of the airlift out of Kabul, some Americans and most Afghan partners were left behind.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 2 Sep. 2021
• Some of the veteran airport workers had returned to their jobs after fleeing during the harrowing chaos of the U.S.-led airlift.
  — Kathy Gannon, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2021
• Each fashions a single thread, a streamer, to function as an emergency airlift.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
• This situation is understandable, given the size of the evacuation and the rushed nature of the airlift.
  — Michael Posner, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• But in the months following the airlift, refugee advocates, members of Congress and even some U.S. government officials urged Afghans to try the tiny program.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• Providing an awe-inspiring backdrop to Kate's arrival earlier in the day was one of the huge C17 Globemaster transporter planes that helped with the airlift.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• The intensity of that airlift — one of the largest in history — stands in sharp contrast to the torpid pace of evacuations after the withdrawal.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• The San Diego search-and-rescue pup is trained to look for survivors after an earthquake, building collapse or cliff failure — missions that may require an airlift.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023
• Authorities were called to the scene by ski patrol for an airlift at 11:25 a.m., but the man was unresponsive and lifesaving measures failed.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2023
• Thousands of troops had spent a harrowing two weeks protecting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans, Americans and others seeking to escape the country.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2021
• As a result, he was repeatedly rejected for entry to the airlift.
  — Ethan Barton, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024