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
  • 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 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
  • This technology is pushing the limits of what drones can do in British airspace.
    Wired, 6 July 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
  • Areas under and next to the freeway are considered airspace.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The White House may have dashed our hopes this time, but who knows what might be behind the next high-altitude object that enters U.S. airspace.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The balloon first passed through American airspace in Alaska north of the Aleutian Islands.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
  • Smelyansky informed her that due to the closure of Ukrainian airspace, the postal service was running cargo flights out of Poland.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • Also at issue is Chinese planes’ use of Russian airspace, through which U.S. planes are not allowed to fly.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Air traffic at the facility about 9 miles southwest of Moscow was halted after a drone was shot down in the airspace around the city.
    Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The warplane clipped the drone’s propeller in international airspace, leading to its crash in the Black Sea.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Kansas State ran Furphy off the 3-point line, got into his airspace and made life difficult for the Aussie guard on the offensive end.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024

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