How to Use landing in a Sentence
landing
noun- The plane made a smooth landing.
- We stopped to rest at the first floor landing.
- I waited at the landing for the ferry.
- Our plane was cleared for landing.
- Landing in high winds can be dangerous.
- The helicopter had to make an emergency landing.
- The pilot was practicing takeoffs and landings.
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China, India and the U.S. have all achieved landing on the Moon in the 2020s.
— Issam Mudawar, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023 -
The teens pulled the girl up a set of stairs to the building’s roof landing and raped her.
— Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024 -
Tumblr diehards do not want the site to be a landing pad for the normies.
— Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2022 -
The half bath is between the first and second floor on the landing.
— Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023 -
Soon enough, the film flashes forward to the summer of 1969, around the time of the moon landing.
— Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023 -
Grip said none of the blades touched the surface during the landing.
— William Harwood, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024 -
SpaceX launched what could very well be the first private landing on the Moon.
— Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024 -
Plus, the plush wool Berber carpet is a soft landing spot for bare feet.
— Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023 -
The fire was still burning about two hours after the landing.
— Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2024 -
That ground was the pebbly landscape near the landing site.
— David Szondy, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2024 -
There is a cantilevered landing that juts out from the studio, bridging it to the main house.
— Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 30 June 2023 -
For that, add a second ladder, perhaps a short stepstool, at the top of the stairs or on the landing.
— Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 16 June 2023 -
There’s a sleek vintage blue Cadillac parked on the front landing.
— Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023 -
Sawyer made a crash landing on the beach when his small aircraft ran out of gas while on a whale watching tour.
— Lori Tobias | , oregonlive, 8 July 2023 -
Henry-1 made a shore landing, picked up the four boaters and took them to safety at Lawson’s Landing on the east shore.
— Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2022 -
Schwartz asked staff and friends what their favorite things about Milwaukee were and added it to the landing page for the IPA.
— Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2024 -
As for the lack of any Plan B, well, the Cougars couldn’t create an optimal landing spot out of thin air.
— Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023 -
The inflatable is designed to sit on the side of the pool with its landing extension in the water.
— Jayla Andrulonis, Parents, 18 June 2023 -
The trip to earth orbit is quick, and, in that case, the landing occurred just 8.5 minutes after the takeoff.
— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024 -
There are four on the coffee table, some scattered on the floor in the living room, and then the rest are in her bedroom and on the landing.
— Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2024 -
The 206 passed overhead and saw we were forced to make an emergency landing.
— Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024 -
This will redirect new users to a sign-up landing page.
— Tim Van Straten, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 -
The plane crashed while trying to make an emergency landing at the Aktau airport in Kazakhstan.
— Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 26 Dec. 2024
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