touch down
Example Sentences
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Areti Anastopoulos, an air traffic controller for more than 30 years, helps approaching pilots to line up their planes, one behind the other, before they touch down on the tarmac.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Yet that’s what the Robinsons did this year when they dropped “A Pound of Feathers,” the Crowes’ 10th studio LP, behind which they’ll touch down Monday night at the Hollywood Bowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
When England descend from altitude, touch down back at Heathrow and face Fiji in Liverpool, they will need to show they can overcome those at a lower level.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Odysseus touched down in the Malapert A crater, some 300 kilometers from the moon’s south pole, becoming the first commercial lander to touch down on the moon.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
With each beat of its wings, bolts of lightning touch down to the ocean.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
