How to Use airspace in a Sentence
airspace
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Dominican officials also closed the airspace to flights to and from Haiti.
— Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024 -
On this day, everyone has a list—whether jotted down or floating in the mental airspace.
— Editors Of Bon Appétit, Bon Appétit, 1 Nov. 2024 -
So the Ukrainians are managing to control their airspace.
— CBS News, 8 May 2022 -
Ukraine’s staunch defense of its airspace has helped keep its armed forces on a more even battlefield against Russia.
— Peter Aitken, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2022 -
This technology is pushing the limits of what drones can do in British airspace.
— Wired, 6 July 2022 -
Russia has also launched most of its air attacks on Ukraine from Russian airspace, not from over Ukraine.
— Andrew Stigler, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2022 -
There were two layers of glass, separated by some airspace and backed by a black sheet of metal.
— Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023 -
These airspace rivers vary in size and strength, and like hurricanes, are sorted in categories based on the severity of the storm.
— Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2024 -
Niger's coup leaders shut the country's airspace, citing the military threat.
— Harold Maass, The Week, 7 Aug. 2023 -
The leagues hope lawmakers will pass a bill to help curb the number of devices that violate airspace on gamedays.
— Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2024 -
Drones can fly over private property, as homeowners and business owners are not considered to own the airspace above.
— Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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