How to Use airspace in a Sentence

airspace

noun

• The airspace above New York City is among the busiest in the world.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
• The city owns the upper levels of the parking garage and the airspace.
  — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 16 June 2024
• The ash plume forced the closure of most of Europe’s airspace for the better part of a week.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• Air rights include the right to build in the airspace above a property.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• During a launch, the FAA needs to close hundreds of miles of airspace.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 May 2022
• The airspace leases have brought in more than $170 million over the past five years.
  — Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• The missiles had to pass through Iraq’s airspace to reach Israel.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• Ukrainian airspace has been closed since early in the war.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• Having to avoid Russian airspace adds time and costs to flights.
  — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• She was supposed to fly home Feb. 24, the day Russia attacked, but the airspace was closed.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• Also, many of them have closed their airspace to Russia.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Mar. 2022
• Since the full-scale invasion, airspace over Ukraine is closed.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024
• In the wake of the confrontation, Pakistan closes its airspace.
  — CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
• But planes were briefly grounded after drones were spotted in the airspace.
  — CBS News, 12 Jan. 2025
• Biden also announced the U.S. would close its airspace to Russian flights.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 2 Mar. 2022
• The airspace was charged with a festival mix of mariachi music and Mac Dre.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 13 Aug. 2024
• None of the planes breached U.S. airspace and a Pentagon spokesperson said Tuesday there was no cause for alarm.
  — Mark Thiessen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
• Two of the drones flew back into Russia airspace, the air force said in a statement posted to Telegram.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2025
• The New York City area, with three major airports, is the most congested airspace in the United states.
  — CNN, 2 June 2022
• The Lebanese Minister of Transportation then told the plane not to enter Lebanese airspace.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2024
• The airspace leases have brought in more than $170 million for public transportation over the past five years.
  — Christopher Weber, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• Todd is right on that point, as the plan would require U.S. forces to shoot down any Russian aircraft in Ukrainian airspace.
  — Saoirse Gowan, The Week, 8 Mar. 2022
• Coup leaders in Niger announced a closure of its airspace, causing flights to reroute around the country.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
• It’s the only airspace in the country where the Air Force can train fighter pilots to shoot down fake fighter jets in the sky and from the ground with rockets.
  — Lucas Thompson, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2022
• The airspace was reopened once the object was found to be harmless, said Daniel Voda, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• My flight is supposed to be flying over Ukrainian airspace.
  — Francesca Street and Marnie Hunter, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022
• Ukraine has called for no-fly zones over its airspace, but the Biden administration says that has risks.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
• All this is part of efforts to fight Russia in Ukrainian airspace without the West being part of the fighting as such.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2022
• Still, federal aviation officials assured frightened flyers that American airspace is among the safest places in the world to be on a plane.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2025
• The collision has renewed concerns about the area's level of air traffic congestion, which leaves little room for error in the airspace above major transport hubs that serve the nation's capital region.
  — Emma Bowman, NPR, 2 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025