How to Use landing in a Sentence

landing

noun

• The plane made a smooth landing.
• We stopped to rest at the first floor landing.
• I waited at the landing for the ferry.
• Our plane was cleared for landing.
• Landing in high winds can be dangerous.
• The helicopter had to make an emergency landing.
• The pilot was practicing takeoffs and landings.
• China, India and the U.S. have all achieved landing on the Moon in the 2020s.
  — Issam Mudawar, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023
• The teens pulled the girl up a set of stairs to the building’s roof landing and raped her.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024
• The guest room, left of the landing, is big enough for a full-size bed and a small desk.
  — Angela Serratore, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
• Tumblr diehards do not want the site to be a landing pad for the normies.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2022
• China carved out a first with its landing on the far side of the moon.
  — Ellen Knickmeyer, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
• The half bath is between the first and second floor on the landing.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• Soon enough, the film flashes forward to the summer of 1969, around the time of the moon landing.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
• Grip said none of the blades touched the surface during the landing.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
• SpaceX launched what could very well be the first private landing on the Moon.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
• Plus, the plush wool Berber carpet is a soft landing spot for bare feet.
  — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
• The fire was still burning about two hours after the landing.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2024
• That ground was the pebbly landscape near the landing site.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2024
• Jake Bailey just punted for the fourth time, this one landing in the end zone.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2022
• The musk and patchouli notes at the bottom offer a soft landing for the white floral-heavy heart.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 10 Jan. 2025
• There is a cantilevered landing that juts out from the studio, bridging it to the main house.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
• For that, add a second ladder, perhaps a short stepstool, at the top of the stairs or on the landing.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• The landing spot does have a bad past memory for Billups.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2022
• There’s a sleek vintage blue Cadillac parked on the front landing.
  — Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• About 80% worked after landing, and had a battery life of up some weeks.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
• An open stairway, with a landing that overlooks the great room at the halfway point, adds to the appeal.
  — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 17 Sep. 2022
• Sawyer made a crash landing on the beach when his small aircraft ran out of gas while on a whale watching tour.
  — Lori Tobias | , oregonlive, 8 July 2023
• Henry-1 made a shore landing, picked up the four boaters and took them to safety at Lawson’s Landing on the east shore.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2022
• Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone.
  — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2025