airdrome

Example Sentences

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At Brussels airport, 60% of flights were canceled, while the Charleroi airdrome was shut down.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2022

After more than twelve hours in the air, they made an emergency landing on Sicily, at an airdrome held by British forces.

From Time • Jan. 6, 2016

The setting, at the height of World War II, is a hotel in Lincolnshire, a gathering spot for Royal Air Force  fighters stationed at a nearby airdrome.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2014

First and most important of these southerly attacks was at Safi, a port and airdrome center 140 miles southwest of Casablanca.

From Time Magazine Archive

The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat- topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller