How to Use launchpad in a Sentence

launchpad

noun

• In 2013, the two beefed over who could lease a NASA launchpad.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Rolex 24 at Daytona is the launchpad for racing around the world.
  — Bruce Martin, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• The fire on state park land south of the launchpad was extinguished.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• The massive spacecraft exploded in the air, and the test wrecked the launchpad.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2024
• Blue Origin chose to build their own, clean-sheet launchpad for New Glenn.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2019
• But the hope of any off-world future starts on a launchpad, like the one at least some of us will be watching next week.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2022
• The film served as something of a launchpad for the two as film-festival darlings for the next few years.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024
• Just after noon on Monday, a SpaceX rocket stood on the same launchpad that once sent men to the moon.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
• The Cannes Film Festival can be the launchpad for the next big thing in Hollywood.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 21 May 2024
• Starship would be caught by a pair of chopstick-like arms that extend from the launchpad.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• The missile could blow up on the launchpad, explains Wellerstein.
  — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
• Boeing stretched to make it to the launchpad this year, let alone into orbit.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
• The rocket will now undergo a week of testing at the launchpad.
  — Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and used it as one of the launchpads for its full-scale invasion last year.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 3 May 2023
• The trip didn’t involve a rocket lifting up from a launchpad.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 July 2021
• This is the second time in five days that technical issues have kept the spacecraft on the launchpad.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022
• Using what happened today as a launchpad for the next day is a key to resilience.
  — Mike Kessler, Men's Health, 25 May 2022
• The force of the rocket blew up its launchpad and sent debris flying into the Texas shoreline.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• No matter what skies Rozzi Fireworks light up in the future, a piece of Cincinnati will be right there on the launchpad.
  — Maria Aguilar, The Enquirer, 2 July 2021
• Still, Britain’s space entrepreneurs say having a launchpad near home might give them an edge.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
• There was a fire on the launchpad during the test that resulted in the deaths of all three astronauts inside.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• That’s not unusual at E3; it’s the industry launchpad for the next two years.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 June 2021
• But the capsule blew up on the launchpad during a firing test of its engines in April, which pushed back the timeline.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2020
• In its first flight, back in April, the craft’s engines failed and the force of the rocket blew up its launchpad and sent debris into the Texas shoreline.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2024
• Bezos himself, dressed in a matching blue spacesuit, drove Shatner and the crew to the launchpad.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
• Standing on the launchpad, parts of the rocket can tolerate sustained winds of up to 74 knots.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2022
• The next time an opponent drives into the lane with a clear path and a launchpad, Allen will be waiting, ready to meet him at the summit.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2022
• It is now positioned as more of a launchpad for newer brands.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 25 Nov. 2024
• But crews onsite at the center evaluated launch facilities after the storm and cleared the spacecraft to return to the launchpad.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
• Some serious thespians in the past have used the SNL stage as a misguided launchpad to show off their quiet command of commedia dell’arte or whatever.
  — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Jan 2025