How to Use air base in a Sentence

air base

noun

• The United States operates a key air base in the country.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2019
• Today, thanks to an increase in flights from a naval air base, Hempton says the noise-free interval has dropped to 10 minutes.
  — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
• But not everyone is so confident, because the air base belongs to the Turkish government.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2019
• Mig-19s had been scrambled from multiple Soviet air bases with orders to shoot down the American spy plane.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 4 Sep. 2019
• In the past few years, Okinawan resistance has coalesced to defend Henoko, a coastal town where the Marines plan to relocate the air base.
  — Delilah Friedler, Teen Vogue, 21 Nov. 2019
• More than two million people have signed up during the past two months to converge on Area 51, the air base near Rachel, Nevada, with hopes of seeing aliens.
  — Jennifer Emerling, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
• The crash took place on March 10 at an air base near Vasilkov, Ukraine.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2021
• The flight brought the evacuees to a military air base in Abu Dhabi.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2021
• The first stop for Cohen and his colleagues was the Hatzor air base.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• In the first days of 2020, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at an Iraqi air base housing U.S. troops.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
• In another part of Iraq, U.S. forces at the al-Harir air base destroyed a drone.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Outside the air base today, the burn pit has been planted over with green grass, but the fields around it look dead.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• My editor was there at the air base with us for that reason.
  — Vulture, 2 June 2022
• Bolsonaro took off from Brasília’s air base in a Brazilian Air Force plane.
  — Camilo Rocha, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
• The plane took off and flew four hours to Johnson Island, a one-strip air base about 900 miles southwest of Hawaii.
  — Michael E. Ruane Washington Post, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• Subi Reef, the site of another air base, is only 976 acres.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2020
• Planes, hangars and housing at the air base suffered heavy damage.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2022
• Except that the whole place was built in the early 2000s on land razed by Mussolini to build an air base.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 11 June 2024
• As the war churned on, the small atoll became a major U.S. air base, and some field cemeteries were paved over.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2022
• In the strike on the Russian air base, Ukrainian forces destroyed eight fighter jets.
  — Eric Schmitt, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2022
• Many of the flights landed at Egypt’s Sidi Barrani air base, near the Libyan border.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
• Bucha was a target from the start of the war, because of the Hostomel military air base, less than three miles from my house.
  — Elena Rubashevska, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2022
• Nelly fell in love with a young Austrian Nazi and had worked for a year on a German air base.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The Russian air force has deployed Backfire bombers to its air base in Syria.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• The Engels air base, a hub for Russia’s fleet of strategic bombers, has been used to launch air raids and missile strikes on Ukraine.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
• The al-Assad air base, which houses US troops, is one of the largest and oldest military bases in Iraq.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 8 Jan. 2020
• By 2018, the next big project at Lop Nur was the rapid expansion of a giant air base whose main runway was three miles long.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• That area includes Great Park, a Marine air base that when retired left 4,700 acres empty.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• She was born on a US air base in Germany where her father was stationed, and shortly after that went to live in Taiwan where her mum is from.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024