airfield

Example Sentences

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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

Go Skydive, which operates at the airfield, has been approached for comment.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

A man has died while taking part in a skydive at an airfield in Devon.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 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

Each morning they’d trek to the airfield with one woman breaking snow up to her waist for the rest of the line.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein