How to Use airlift in a Sentence

airlift

noun

• There was nowhere to land, and the cliffs were too close for an airlift.
  — Michael Easter, Outside Online, 13 May 2021
• Halvorsen returned to the Berlin airlift for a few more weeks.
  — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
• His work is just one example of the largest supply effort since the Cold War and the Berlin airlift.
  — NBC News, 11 Mar. 2022
• In total, the bovine airlift is expected to bring in the 4,000 cows within about a month.
  — Mohammed Sergie, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017
• Head wounds sent Matt to a hospital in Juneau via airlift.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2018
• After the airlift, Halvorsen remained in the Air Force.
  — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
• Big airlifts began in the 1980s, when Ethiopia suffered tyranny and famine.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• Rather than scuba gear, the divers use hookahs attached to small fishing boats for breathing and then dive down with the airlift.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
• The men heaped praise on Qatar for its role in the airlift; more people transited through the country than any other.
  — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
• The parachute brigade is like a rescue team arriving to save the day, a Berlin airlift for the beleaguered soul.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Tens of thousands sought to flee the country as a result in a harrowing airlift.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2021
• Outside, an American plane used during the airlift still rests on the field.
  — Joyce Lee, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
• Biden has set Tuesday as the deadline for completing the airlift.
  — Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• By the time a medical airlift was clear for takeoff from Juneau, the medicine had begun working.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2022
• The Taliban pledged that once the airlift was complete, Afghans with travel documents would be free to leave the country.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2021
• Some have caught coveted seats on emergency airlifts and boats across the Red Sea.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• Those troops are trapped for now, since Turkey has cut off the roads; removing them may require an airlift.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• In 1965, an airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• The combination of the camps being cut off and the remote possibility that the fire could swing their way, has led to the airlift, which will last for days.
  — Ian Austen and Dan Levin, New York Times, 5 May 2016
• Austin said the airlift would continue for as long as possible.
  — Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2021
• France launched a massive airlift to bring supplies to St. Martin, the island that took a direct and devastating hit in the storm.
  — Paul Page, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
• The scale and speed of this airlift are unprecedented, but the U.S. has a history of taking in refugees from overseas conflicts.
  — Ben Fox and Jamie Stengle, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2021
• Then come the airlift and the drifting descent, via glider, to the battleground, with a gentle whooshing sound that is to the Fortnite addict what the flick of a Bic is to a smoker.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• Fires in Greece caused wartime-scale airlifts of tourists and ammunition depots to explode.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• The media wanted to cheerlead the airlift and the evacuees, so criticism of the Biden admin’s botch of a withdrawal has now been muted.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 Sep. 2021
• Those memories were on Khogyani's mind when he was given permission in August to join the airlift.
  — John Blake, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
• But any decision by Biden to stay longer could reignite fighting between the Taliban and Western troops running the airlift.
  — Monika Scislowska, ajc, 26 Aug. 2021
• The emergency airlift was supposed to supply Charlottesville with food for a week or two.
  — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
• Some 65 pilots, crew members, and civilian workers died during the airlift.
  — Nicolaus Mills, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2024
• The planes, primarily used for aerial refueling and airlift, are expected to be delivered in the next few years.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024