Examples of airfield in a Sentence
the passenger jet made an emergency landing at an abandoned airfield
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The airfield was closed at the time and military operations were not impacted.
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Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
The Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority has acquired a small but critical parcel needed for its $67 million 100-acre cargo expansion project on the airfield’s north side.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Both are used to strike munitions depots, command and control nodes, airfields and other bases; neither Ukraine nor Europe produces comparable weapons systems at scale.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
To bring the sequence to life, production designer Mark Digby built a 360-degree set on an old airfield at Bovingdon Airfield Studios by using reference images from Google Earth and Ray’s own recollection.
—Matt Minton, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025
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Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
The Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority has acquired a small but critical parcel needed for its $67 million 100-acre cargo expansion project on the airfield’s north side.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Both are used to strike munitions depots, command and control nodes, airfields and other bases; neither Ukraine nor Europe produces comparable weapons systems at scale.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
To bring the sequence to life, production designer Mark Digby built a 360-degree set on an old airfield at Bovingdon Airfield Studios by using reference images from Google Earth and Ray’s own recollection.
—Matt Minton, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025
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“Airfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airfield. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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airfield
noun
air·field
ˈa(ə)r-ˌfēld 
ˈe(ə)r-
1
: the landing field of an airport
2
: airport
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