tarmac
Example Sentences
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One day, I drove from Jena down to the Alexandria staging facility, one of the rare ICE detention structures situated directly on Tarmac.
From Slate • Jun. 19, 2025
Some activists glued themselves to the Tarmac, while another stuck himself to a police car on 29 September.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2022
By late March, after the US shut its skies to Europe, planes began streaming into Tarmac Aerosave’s boneyards.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2020
“Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike,” he wrote, “as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2016
Tarmac The line of departure on the field.
From Aces Up by Clarke, Covington
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
