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
Open since 2017, Magazzino has been a landing strip in the United States for Arte Povera and other postwar and contemporary Italian work.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 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
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
On the plateau, the team would set up camp, scout routes to the target, radio weather reports back to Britain, and light up a landing strip on the edge of a frozen lake.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
