landing strip
Example Sentences
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Now, where the old landing strip was, you’ll find the parking lot for the zoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
On Sunday, the 44-year-old captain met the same fate as her husband when the propeller plane she was co-piloting crashed near the landing strip in Pokhara, a vacation destination.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
A small group of people stood together in near silence, some recording video as the aircraft taxied from the landing strip and rolled to a halt.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
“It is supposed to be a landing strip for us, but they’ve taken it over,” Junior Hekurari Yanomami, president of the Yanomami and Ye’kwana Indigenous Health Council, said angrily in an interview in his office.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
The problem was that there was nowhere at Pochala for planes with food and supplies to land, no landing strip.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
