airfield

Example Sentences

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Network Rail will also carry out track upgrade work around Bristol ready for the MetroWest project with a new station set to open on the former Filton airfield site later this year.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Over the preceding several years, the Soviet Union and Cuba had grown involved in Grenada, building military facilities, providing arms, and building an airfield capable of handling military aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Unless an airfield was available, a makeshift one would need to be set up to bring equipment in and take the nuclear material out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

If a local airfield wasn’t available, a makeshift one would need to be set up to fly equipment in and the material out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

When Valentin and his navigator, Nikolai Nikitin, first arrived at the 587th’s base near Stalingrad, they watched the Pe-2s dive-bombers coming and going from the frozen airfield.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein