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
  • The ship carrying Ripley and her crew at the end of Aliens crash-lands on the prison planet Fiorina 161, with Ripley as the sole survivor.
    Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • During the ordeal, Kennedy and Christina were nearly pushed by strong currents into a boulder, crash-landed on a beach and at several points were plunged underwater.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • Unlike the surviving family in the film, McNamara crash-lands.
    Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The digital world also allowed his imagination free reign to dream up an immersive film where an amethyst meteorite crash-lands on Place Vendôme and turns the Parisian landmark into a field of glittering flowers.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 12 July 2024
  • 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
  • Also, unfriendly extraterrestrials have crash-landed nearby.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2024
  • When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024

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