How to Use airfield in a Sentence

airfield

noun
  • The insurgents routinely fire rockets at the airfield, and could ramp up attacks.
    Jessica Donati, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • On Thursday, two runways were briefly shut down after a person drove through a chain-link fence and onto the airfield.
    Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2021
  • Those images suggest the new airfield is flat and won't pose any risks when Ingenuity touches down.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 May 2021
  • Recent airfield closures gave analysts a chance to count North Korea’s active aircraft.
    David Axe, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • On Thursday, a driver plowed through a chain-link fence at a FedEx cargo facility and went onto the airfield, crossing runways as police chased the car.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
  • The air above the airfield was thick was smoke as sirens filled the air after the blast.
    Katie Wadington, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The airfield plays a small role in the history of 9/11.
    Ben Brasch, ajc, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The plane was found at the end of runway 23, between the airfield and Race Lane.
    Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
  • New Haven owns the airport, but a portion of the airfield is in East Haven.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Why not sip a drink and enjoy the airfield views through the floor to ceiling windwows that run the length of the lounge?
    Michele Robson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • At one point, after a handful of lessons, the two told Garza that some friends had come to the airfield to meet him.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The assembly of the roof had to take place on an empty airfield.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The next morning, Coleman and the mechanic did a test run over the airfield.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The young troops stood between the masses and the airfield, forming a human wall.
    Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Prince and Princess of Wales, both 42, also spent time in the clubhouse with George at the airfield, according to the outlet.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Video footage shared on Telegram appeared to show a large fire and massive plumes of dark smoke at the airfield.
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The passenger walked out onto the wing of the plane and slid down onto the airfield, police said.
    Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • The battlefield was built on a flat airfield that’s about the size of three football fields outside of Prague.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The fall of Saigon sequence at the end of the first episode was filmed on an airfield affiliated with the Thai Army.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 June 2024
  • The pilot looks ahead and down, and sees the edge of the airfield at an angle of declination of 27.9 degrees.
    Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The records were set at an airfield in Örebro, Sweden, in the early hours of Thursday, June 27.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 July 2024
  • Now, Stars and Stripes reports that the brigade has renamed its airfield to honor the two pilots.
    Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 9 June 2023
  • She is being given access to secure areas of the airfield to aid in the search.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Nelson had been stationed at the airfield that had been built on her property and the two were close friends.
    Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The airbase, which is one of the busiest military airfields in the U.K., is home to a number of frontline squadrons and training units.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The Sheraton and a smattering of hotels at the southeast corner of the airfield stood in the way.
    Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 3 Sep. 2021
  • However Bloomberg published a story while the planes were still en route to the airfield where the swap was scheduled to take place.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2024
  • In a statement, the airport said that there was water on the south end of the airfield, but that runways were not impacted.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The crew landed at an airfield and escaped, El Mundo reported.
    Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Ukraine has been waging its own campaign of drone strikes deep inside Russia, setting airfields and oil depots ablaze.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024

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