airstrip

Example Sentences

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Today it is home to an empty airstrip and the rusty remains of buildings, vehicles and hundreds of fuel drums, nicknamed American flowers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The government consulted studies to identify the hours of lightest traffic from Altiplano to an airstrip near Mexico City, where the men would board flights to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Investigative reporting by, among others, the New York Times, has documented that these are transported through an airstrip and supply base built by the UAE just inside Chad.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

The facility went up on a former airstrip in eight days and will have an initial capacity of 3,000 detainees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2025

We landed on an airstrip on one end of the island.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela