airfield

Example Sentences

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"The fire in the hangar has now been extinguished, and the airfield has been closed," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

In one instance, a plane carrying the European Commission president was forced to divert to another airfield.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The BBC skidded optimistically along to a pickup spot at the city's de-commissioned airfield, Tempelhofer Feld, but there were no veggie sacks to be seen.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

Drive five minutes toward London and you’ll find an airfield that became a Rolls-Royce factory and is now a Warner Bros. complex.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

They would live here in wooden summer houses until February 1943; the airfield itself was just two wooden huts and some dugouts that the women had to dig themselves.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein