Examples of air base in a Sentence
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The attack did only minor damage to one air base, and only one serious injury was reported.
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Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
In Qatar, host to both a massive U.S. air base and a Taliban office, balancing acts are a court tradition.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
Also on Tuesday, an Il-76 heavy-lift transport plane of the Russian air force with 15 people on board crashed while taking off from an air base in the Ivanovo region in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said.
—Jim Heintz and Hanna Arhirova, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
Instead of heading back, Rooster goes out to find Maverick alive and the pair steal an F-14 from the air base.
—Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
In Iraq, an attack on Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts Iraqi and U.S. troops, left one Iraqi soldier seriously injured, according to a Defense Department official.
—Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
There was minimal damage to an Israeli air base, which remained functional, and sadly a seven-year-old girl from a Bedouin village suffered a serious head wound.
—The Editors, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
Of those, several ballistic missiles reached Israeli territory, causing minor damage to an air base.
—Joseph Federman, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024
In the two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States has led an effort to funnel more than $88 billion in weapons and security assistance to Kyiv through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which usually meets at an American air base in Ramstein, Germany.
—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
In Qatar, host to both a massive U.S. air base and a Taliban office, balancing acts are a court tradition.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
Also on Tuesday, an Il-76 heavy-lift transport plane of the Russian air force with 15 people on board crashed while taking off from an air base in the Ivanovo region in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said.
—Jim Heintz and Hanna Arhirova, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
Instead of heading back, Rooster goes out to find Maverick alive and the pair steal an F-14 from the air base.
—Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
In Iraq, an attack on Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts Iraqi and U.S. troops, left one Iraqi soldier seriously injured, according to a Defense Department official.
—Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
There was minimal damage to an Israeli air base, which remained functional, and sadly a seven-year-old girl from a Bedouin village suffered a serious head wound.
—The Editors, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
Of those, several ballistic missiles reached Israeli territory, causing minor damage to an air base.
—Joseph Federman, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024
In the two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States has led an effort to funnel more than $88 billion in weapons and security assistance to Kyiv through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which usually meets at an American air base in Ramstein, Germany.
—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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