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landing strip
noun as in runway for aircraft
Example Sentences
On the landing strip, children with moms and grandmothers gathered to greet Santa, played by pilot Ralph Hoover.
They’ll charter a flight to drop you and a guide at one of the park’s landing strips for a pristine campsite and hikes suitable for any skill level that you’d be hard-pressed to beat.
The plane clipped trees during its descent, plunging into the forest 300 yards short of the landing strip.
Off to our right was the only shade, back of the landing strip, a great gray hangar glutted with shiny-nosed, finny monsters.
On the east coast of England at the point closest to Europe there was a landing strip on top of the white cliffs.
Every landing strip, even though it appeared to be only an emergency runway, was checked and photographed.
The plane settled down on a landing strip that had been hewn from a mountaintop.
His landing strip ran along the seaward edge of the island, from the lab building to the front of the house.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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