How to Use airstrip in a Sentence

airstrip

noun
  • Authorities found that the plane was last located near the airstrip in Vermont.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
  • This was the second fatal crash at the airstrip in a week.
    Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • And a private airstrip is a mere 10-minute boat ride away.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The cart crossed a wooden bridge linking the eastern part of the island with the airstrip on the west.
    Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The stillness of solar Old Crow’s solar farm sits on the far side of the airstrip that runs the length of the town.
    Tik Root, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Ryan and three journalists were killed on the airstrip.
    Grace Hauck, CNN, 15 June 2017
  • The two Delta planes clipped wings while taxiing on the airstrip late that morning.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • By the end of next week, staff said, the airstrip will look as though the vaccine site were never there.
    Alex Putterman, courant.com, 30 June 2021
  • Yards from the airstrip lay the hull of a small plane that, residents say, crashed over the summer.
    New York Times, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The hunters’ camp was situated atop the hill at the end of the airstrip, Johnson said.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • The airstrip was made for Earhart’s trip, and was built and maintained by colonists brought mostly from Hawaii.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The next day, civilians shoved their way through barbed wire and flooded onto the airstrip.
    Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • After eight hours in the air, the plane bumped down on an airstrip in an airfield in Konya, Turkey.
    NBC News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Parishioners also bought water from their homes to the airstrip to be blessed by Barzare.
    USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Sena’s ordeal began Jan. 28 at a small airstrip in Pará state.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The temperature drops, and the airstrip, a few miles outside town, shuts down.
    New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • More tough decisions are on the way now that the last U.S. plane has lifted off from the Kabul airstrip.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The crash occurred in a grass field near the airstrip after the pilot attempted to turn around.
    Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • There were giraffes and lions milling around just beyond the airstrip.
    Barbara King, House Beautiful, 9 Sep. 2013
  • At the crest, there’s a clearing and then Surry Mountain Dam, braced by hills, the road atop it flat and straight as an airstrip.
    Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2020
  • A judge has blocked Willis’ plan to build a private airstrip in central Idaho.
    Associated Press, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
  • The chartered plane landed on a dusty airstrip in Guatemala, just across the border from Honduras.
    Jordan Salama, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Part of it was crafted from steel airstrip landing mats left over from the Vietnam War.
    Cindy Carcamo, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The backcountry along the Butano Rim, the old airstrip and the trail camp, on the other hand, was severely burned.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The report said explosions were heard at around 5:30 a.m. from the direction of the airstrip.
    Tom Odula, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Only one tarmac road connects the tiny airstrip to the harbor town.
    Rachel Howard, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2024
  • One of the missiles hit near an airstrip where six drones were parked, causing no damage.
    Time, 13 Jan. 2020
  • During the past few decades, airstrips have been hacked out, so that bush planes can ferry people and goods.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Our last flight of the day was a charter flight to a dirt airstrip that doesn't appear on any aviation maps.
    Georgia Dean, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2018
  • But Perez said men in military uniforms handcuffed Zambada, put a bag over his head and threw him into the back of a truck bound for the nearest airstrip.
    Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024

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