airport

Example Sentences

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But as the Boeing 737 approached the airport in San Diego, the pilot reported to the tower that the plane had possibly hit a drone while flying at about 3,000 feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

After thinking a young girl's outfit in an airport was inappropriate, she started to ruminate over why those beliefs appeared in the first place.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The U.K. doesn’t have the same refining capacity and is the home of Heathrow airport, one of the world’s busiest, resulting in heavy demand for jet fuel.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

The snub was hard to miss: Brazil’s president had received the full red-carpeted staircase treatment at the same airport a day earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Apparently he’d paid a tailor in Isfahan to sew them into the lining of the super expensive suitcases so the guards at the airport wouldn’t think to inspect them.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri