landing strip

Example Sentences

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The ski plane they study the wolves from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because there’s nowhere to touch down on the island.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Now, where the old landing strip was, you’ll find the parking lot for the zoo.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

The twin-engine propeller plane she was co-piloting crashed about a mile from the landing strip at a newly built airport in Pokhara, a Himalayan vacation destination.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2023

A long stretch of calm water was all the landing strip this behemoth needed to reach populous seaports in the United States and Europe or exotic destinations like Honolulu, Fiji and Java.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

Two more silent M.P.s were waiting at the landing strip.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller