How to Use landing strip in a Sentence

landing strip

noun

• Kirsh said he was told the plane overran the runway and crashed when the plane left the landing strip.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2017
• The last two stops at single landing strips in the middle of nowhere.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
• The ranch is served by a 5,000-foot private landing strip and airplane hangar.
  — Dallas News, 17 June 2022
• Five landing strips have been constructed and are in use in France, the air forces announced.
  — Wes Gallagher, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019
• There is no landing strip for rescue planes and there is no deep harbor.
  — Sasha Chapman, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
• The dirt landing strip, stark and rust-colored under a bluebird sky.
  — Jacqueline Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2022
• Barose played up her eyes with a landing strip of red eye shadow extending from eye to eye.
  — Falen Hardge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2019
• More than 90 percent use a route that starts from a landing strip for small airplanes on Kahiltna Glacier.
  — Dan Joling, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• The pilot tipped the wing, angling towards the dirt landing strip of Indian Creek.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• The base has gone from a dusty landing strip to ... something much more mysterious.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2021
• Many arrived via private jets on the landing strip on the property.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
• Located less than an hour’s drive west of Kerrville, the ranch features two wells, a one-acre pond and an old landing strip.
  — Melissa Manno, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2023
• None of the landing strip's features are permanent, and all structures on the runway are dismantled and carted away at the end of the season.
  — Lilit Marcus, Cnn; Video By Max Burnell, CNN, 5 May 2022
• Planes approaching the grass landing strip at Beaverbrook Aerodrome would have flown over his body for about 36 hours before it was found.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
• An hour later, the plane lowered and floated down effortlessly to a small dirt landing strip.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Removal of two runways because of low usage In other work at Mitchell, the airport plans to remove two of its five landing strips.
  — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
• The glider regiments quickly build landing strips for the troop transports.
  — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
• The latest standoff is over portions of a pristine landscape that boasts the world’s highest landing strip and a glacier that feeds one of the largest irrigation systems in the world.
  — Ashok Sharma, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2020
• Coming in for a landing you are confronted with a mass of craggy peaks; on the very top is the single, narrow landing strip, with sharp drop-offs on either side.
  — Peter Greenberg, Town & Country, 7 Feb. 2014
• Morning Start where everyone starts their best days on the coastside: 3-Zero Cafe, the greasy spoon adjacent to the airport’s main landing strip.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2018
• Forward Operating Base Dwyer — a sprawling complex in the south with a sizable landing strip — is closing in weeks, if not days.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• The first Pacific task the battalion had was to build Marine landing strips for Corsair fighter planes in support of Marine ground units.
  — Paul Wood, The Seattle Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• However, five of the sites – the sixth is a landing strip – do not have civilian features and are nearly identical in how they are constructed and arranged.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• Brussels tower flashed the emergency signal, and fire trucks and ambulances began rolling down the landing strip.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 23 Feb. 2018
• The landing strip is now able to accommodate planes up to the size of a Boeing 737, meaning visitors no longer need to land in Barbados and transfer to a puddle jumper across to Canouan.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
• My heart skipped several beats as our plane navigated the cloud-haloed, sharp peaks of the Himalayas before easing itself onto the landing strip in Paro.
  — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Feb. 2024
• The eastern forces, under the command of Khalifa Hifter, accuse the Tripoli government of using the landing strip to receive foreign weapons and fighters.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
• Flying drugs by air is one of the most efficient smuggling methods for South American drug traffickers, who clear makeshift landing strips deep in the jungle in which to load the aircraft.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 7 Jan. 2020
• In a crosswind landing, strong wind is hitting an aircraft at a perpendicular angle to the direction of the landing strip.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2016
• This is largely a study in how wealth seduces, or how a group of sentient young people fell under the sway of a spoiled sociopath who, when sober, could be quite charming (and whose family had its own plane and landing strip).
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024