How to Use crash-land in a Sentence

crash-land

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• But not before one carload of Nazis flies off the bridge and crash-lands in front of them.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
• In the first, the girls crash-land in a vast wilderness on their way to a soccer tournament.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• But the Louvre appears, at first glance, to be a flying saucer that has crash-landed on the beach.
  — John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
• Society of the Snow aims to retell the story of the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• Touch down wrong, and the spacecraft may have faced a fate like Hayabusa, which crash-landed on its asteroid.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• The electric vehicle dropped some 300 feet before crash-landing just feet from the waves of the Pacific Ocean.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• The ship carrying Ripley and her crew at the end of Aliens crash-lands on the prison planet Fiorina 161, with Ripley as the sole survivor.
  — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
• Failure is an option In the early days of the 20th century space race, far more spacecraft crash-landed on the moon than safely touched down.
  — Kristin Fisher, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• After she’s captured by Skrulls who try to probe her memories, Vers crash-lands in 1995 Los Angeles.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• When Ripley crash-lands on the planetoid along with one xenomorph running loose and a another one growing inside her, the monks regard her as a kind of witch.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• Plane crash In 2016, a small plane towing a banner crash-landed on a Detroit residential street.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2024
• But when Chief, the ornery stray, gets overruled into helping his pack assist a boy who’s crash-landed on their trash island, Cranston really nails it.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
• One day, a government agent named Aster (Lena Headey) crash-lands nearby, claiming she’s been sent to study strange rocks recently discovered in the area.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2023
• The pilot of a single-engine plane crash-landed in a Compton neighborhood near the airport Wednesday morning.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The film is the latest cinematic retelling of the miraculous story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes in 1972, with the survivors being forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2024
• Eleven years later, the Chandrayaan-2 successfully entered lunar orbit but its rover crash-landed on the moon’s surface.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
• One of the bombs crash-landed, sustaining critical damage.
  — Rebecca Messina, theweek, 25 Apr. 2024
• As on most other rocky planets, the water on Mercury probably came from asteroids that crash-landed onto the surface.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
• Their quiet lives change when an alien spaceship crash-lands in Milton’s backyard, which is conveniently remote and protected from nosy neighbors by a tall fence.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• During the ordeal, Kennedy and Christina were nearly pushed by strong currents into a boulder, crash-landed on a beach and at several points were plunged underwater.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
• Unlike the surviving family in the film, McNamara crash-lands.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
• When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in the sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
• When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
• The digital world also allowed his imagination free reign to dream up an immersive film where an amethyst meteorite crash-lands on Place Vendôme and turns the Parisian landmark into a field of glittering flowers.
  — Lily Templeton, WWD, 12 July 2024
• Somewhere on a distant island, a verdant little slice of nature filled to the brim with all of North America’s greatest hits creatures (bears, raccoons, skunks, foxes, geese, all the recognizable stars), a snazzy robot has crash-landed.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
• That spacecraft released an impact probe that was intentionally crash-landed, stirring up moon debris that the orbiter could analyze.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2023
• Paying tribute to the former Sherman Army Airfield are artillery shells and artifacts from the aeronautical realm, including a plane’s entire back end that apparently crash-landed into the wall.
  — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
• Distracted by his unexpected passengers, Santa loses control and crash-lands in downtown Chicago without his reindeer, magic hat, and sack of toys.
  — EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
• Within four months of the album’s release, a resounding answer crash-landed in the form of an out-of-nowhere, cycle-breaking single that smashed through Ariana’s own release pattern and her audience’s presuppositions.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2024
• The pilot of a small plane that crash-landed near a runway at Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts on July 15 after suffering a medical emergency has died, according to officials.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 July 2023

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025