How to Use airstrip in a Sentence

airstrip

noun

• This was the second fatal crash at the airstrip in a week.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
• And a private airstrip is a mere 10-minute boat ride away.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2021
• The cart crossed a wooden bridge linking the eastern part of the island with the airstrip on the west.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
• The stillness of solar Old Crow’s solar farm sits on the far side of the airstrip that runs the length of the town.
  — Tik Root, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
• Ryan and three journalists were killed on the airstrip.
  — Grace Hauck, CNN, 15 June 2017
• The two Delta planes clipped wings while taxiing on the airstrip late that morning.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2024
• By the end of next week, staff said, the airstrip will look as though the vaccine site were never there.
  — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 30 June 2021
• Yards from the airstrip lay the hull of a small plane that, residents say, crashed over the summer.
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2021
• The hunters’ camp was situated atop the hill at the end of the airstrip, Johnson said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
• The airstrip was made for Earhart’s trip, and was built and maintained by colonists brought mostly from Hawaii.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• The next day, civilians shoved their way through barbed wire and flooded onto the airstrip.
  — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
• After eight hours in the air, the plane bumped down on an airstrip in an airfield in Konya, Turkey.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2018
• Parishioners also bought water from their homes to the airstrip to be blessed by Barzare.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
• Sena’s ordeal began Jan. 28 at a small airstrip in Pará state.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2021
• The temperature drops, and the airstrip, a few miles outside town, shuts down.
  — New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
• More tough decisions are on the way now that the last U.S. plane has lifted off from the Kabul airstrip.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
• The crash occurred in a grass field near the airstrip after the pilot attempted to turn around.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• At the crest, there’s a clearing and then Surry Mountain Dam, braced by hills, the road atop it flat and straight as an airstrip.
  — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2020
• A judge has blocked Willis’ plan to build a private airstrip in central Idaho.
  — Associated Press, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
• The chartered plane landed on a dusty airstrip in Guatemala, just across the border from Honduras.
  — Jordan Salama, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• Part of it was crafted from steel airstrip landing mats left over from the Vietnam War.
  — Cindy Carcamo, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• The backcountry along the Butano Rim, the old airstrip and the trail camp, on the other hand, was severely burned.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2021
• The report said explosions were heard at around 5:30 a.m. from the direction of the airstrip.
  — Tom Odula, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2020
• Only one tarmac road connects the tiny airstrip to the harbor town.
  — Rachel Howard, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2024
• One of the missiles hit near an airstrip where six drones were parked, causing no damage.
  — Time, 13 Jan. 2020
• During the past few decades, airstrips have been hacked out, so that bush planes can ferry people and goods.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Our last flight of the day was a charter flight to a dirt airstrip that doesn't appear on any aviation maps.
  — Georgia Dean, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2018
• The estate has a 5,000-foot airstrip and a private heliport.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 July 2019
• Then the planes would return to Paraguay, landing at one of the clandestine airstrips that now peppered the northern part of the country.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 12 Aug. 2024
• But Perez said men in military uniforms handcuffed Zambada, put a bag over his head and threw him into the back of a truck bound for the nearest airstrip.
  — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024