crash-land

Example Sentences

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There’s a more than 1% chance the asteroid will make its way toward Earth and crash-land on the planet in December 2032.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

Another study showed that a group of frogs called pumpkin toadlets had become so small that the fluid-filled canals in their ears that confer balance no longer functioned properly, causing them to crash-land when jumping.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

Both characters are humanoids from faraway planets who crash-land on Earth.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2023

The coming campaign will focus not only on events now in play and those we can anticipate but also those that crash-land out of the blue in the coming months.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2021

He hatched a scheme to fly a small airplane to Tibet, crash-land it on the flanks of Everest, and proceed to the summit from there.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer