landing strip

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Recent Examples of landing strip Speier and the rest of the delegation were picked up at the landing strip and driven in dump trucks to the 3,800-acre jungle compound on Nov. 17. Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024 Waterbury Airport, about a mile from the crash site, consists of a single landing strip and has been closed for years. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 3 June 2024 However, not everyone is clouded with the appeal of a neighborhood with its own landing strip. Jaida Joyner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2024 When Pablo Escobar sought a new shipping route to smuggle cocaine into the US, the fields the Mennonites had created were perfect landing strips for planes that needed to refuel or unload drugs. Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 13 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for landing strip 

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