How to Use airspace in a Sentence

airspace

noun
  • More than a month into the war, airspace restrictions continue to cause headaches for route planners.
    Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Air-raid sirens warning of Russian fighter jets breaching the airspace sound several times a day.
    New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • That includes more over-the-horizon surveillance equipment and modern fighter planes to control airspace.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Lebanon says Israel regularly breached the agreement over the past two decades by sending fighter jets into its airspace.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024
  • While acknowledging an attack, Peskov asserted that Russia's control over its own airspace was not in doubt.
    Arkansas Online, 2 Apr. 2022
  • But Russian airspace is now off limits amid simmering geopolitical tensions.
    Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Three more Shahed drones were reported in Belarusian airspace by the monitoring project over the following two nights.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Russia has reported cross-border shelling from Ukraine before, including an incident last week that killed a military chaplain, but not an incursion of its airspace.
    Yuras Karmanau, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The airspace above New York City is among the busiest in the world.
    Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The city owns the upper levels of the parking garage and the airspace.
    Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 16 June 2024
  • The ash plume forced the closure of most of Europe’s airspace for the better part of a week.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Air rights include the right to build in the airspace above a property.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • During a launch, the FAA needs to close hundreds of miles of airspace.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 May 2022
  • The airspace leases have brought in more than $170 million over the past five years.
    Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The missiles had to pass through Iraq’s airspace to reach Israel.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Ukrainian airspace has been closed since early in the war.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Having to avoid Russian airspace adds time and costs to flights.
    Diksha Madhok, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Since the full-scale invasion, airspace over Ukraine is closed.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024
  • In the wake of the confrontation, Pakistan closes its airspace.
    CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The airspace was charged with a festival mix of mariachi music and Mac Dre.
    Peter Rubin, Longreads, 13 Aug. 2024
  • None of the planes breached U.S. airspace and a Pentagon spokesperson said Tuesday there was no cause for alarm.
    Mark Thiessen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The New York City area, with three major airports, is the most congested airspace in the United states.
    CNN, 2 June 2022
  • The Lebanese Minister of Transportation then told the plane not to enter Lebanese airspace.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The airspace leases have brought in more than $170 million for public transportation over the past five years.
    Christopher Weber, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Coup leaders in Niger announced a closure of its airspace, causing flights to reroute around the country.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
  • It’s the only airspace in the country where the Air Force can train fighter pilots to shoot down fake fighter jets in the sky and from the ground with rockets.
    Lucas Thompson, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The airspace was reopened once the object was found to be harmless, said Daniel Voda, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Dominican officials also closed the airspace to flights to and from Haiti.
    Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
  • On this day, everyone has a list—whether jotted down or floating in the mental airspace.
    Editors Of Bon Appétit, Bon Appétit, 1 Nov. 2024
  • So the Ukrainians are managing to control their airspace.
    CBS News, 8 May 2022

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