How to Use crash-land in a Sentence

crash-land

verb

• But not before one carload of Nazis flies off the bridge and crash-lands in front of them.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
• But the Louvre appears, at first glance, to be a flying saucer that has crash-landed on the beach.
  — John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
• Society of the Snow aims to retell the story of the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• Touch down wrong, and the spacecraft may have faced a fate like Hayabusa, which crash-landed on its asteroid.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• The electric vehicle dropped some 300 feet before crash-landing just feet from the waves of the Pacific Ocean.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• Failure is an option In the early days of the 20th century space race, far more spacecraft crash-landed on the moon than safely touched down.
  — Kristin Fisher, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• After she’s captured by Skrulls who try to probe her memories, Vers crash-lands in 1995 Los Angeles.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• When Ripley crash-lands on the planetoid along with one xenomorph running loose and a another one growing inside her, the monks regard her as a kind of witch.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• But when Chief, the ornery stray, gets overruled into helping his pack assist a boy who’s crash-landed on their trash island, Cranston really nails it.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
• One day, a government agent named Aster (Lena Headey) crash-lands nearby, claiming she’s been sent to study strange rocks recently discovered in the area.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2023
• The pilot of a single-engine plane crash-landed in a Compton neighborhood near the airport Wednesday morning.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The film is the latest cinematic retelling of the miraculous story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes in 1972, with the survivors being forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2024
• Eleven years later, the Chandrayaan-2 successfully entered lunar orbit but its rover crash-landed on the moon’s surface.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
• One of the bombs crash-landed, sustaining critical damage.
  — Rebecca Messina, theweek, 25 Apr. 2024
• As on most other rocky planets, the water on Mercury probably came from asteroids that crash-landed onto the surface.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
• Their quiet lives change when an alien spaceship crash-lands in Milton’s backyard, which is conveniently remote and protected from nosy neighbors by a tall fence.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Unlike the surviving family in the film, McNamara crash-lands.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
• That spacecraft released an impact probe that was intentionally crash-landed, stirring up moon debris that the orbiter could analyze.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2023
• Paying tribute to the former Sherman Army Airfield are artillery shells and artifacts from the aeronautical realm, including a plane’s entire back end that apparently crash-landed into the wall.
  — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
• The pilot of a small plane that crash-landed near a runway at Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts on July 15 after suffering a medical emergency has died, according to officials.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 July 2023
• The Syfy series, introduced in 2019, casts Tudyk as the pizza-loving, profanity-spewing title character who crash-lands in rural America on a mission to destroy humanity.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024