How to Use tarmac in a Sentence

tarmac

noun

• All of the men left the jet and were standing on the tarmac.
  — Ben Foldy, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• The truck rammed through a gate and went onto the tarmac.
  — Julie Luchetta, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• From the tarmac, Griner spoke on the phone with Biden and wife, Cherelle Griner.
  — Ben Gittleson, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• First, the stowaway takes to the runway, with the lights along the tarmac.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The men, Warren among them, were lined up on the tarmac.
  — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2022
• Around the skidpad, the Mustang clung to the tarmac with 1.11 g of force.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 7 Oct. 2020
• Trump climbed the stairs to a platform and waved to a tarmac filled with red.
  — Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2020
• For five days, the FedEx plane sat on the tarmac in Shanghai.
  — USA Today, 11 Sep. 2020
• Those aboard the flight deplaned on the tarmac with the help of airstairs and were bussed to the terminal.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 3 Oct. 2022
• The GIs looked up from the tarmac as the president spoke.
  — Sarah Rose, Washington Post, 13 May 2020
• But the trauma in season 1, the shooting on the tarmac, that was such a 180.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• Griner and Bout crossed paths on a tarmac in the United Arab Emirates, the site of the exchange.
  — Kris Rhim, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• The plane took off, with Stanikzai and his family left on the tarmac.
  — CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
• In Iowa, Trump tossed away his tie and donned a red hat to fight off the stiff breeze on the airport tarmac.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2020
• Some climbed aboard, clinging to the outside as the aircraft gained speed on the tarmac.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2021
• For that one, he was put on a cherry picker and raised 10 feet above the planes, parked on the tarmac.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• On the tarmac at the Nashua Airport sat a dinky white plane with wings mounted over the fuselage.
  — Kurt G. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• The white car will be set up for desert events, with the red one optimized for tarmac.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2021
• With the Mets idling on a tarmac, the Reds waited out an hours-long rain delay to beat…the Brewers.
  — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• The State Department tweeted a picture of the two on the tarmac in front of a blue-and-white Air Force plane.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2019
• For road games prior to 9/11, the Beavers used to drive their bus onto the tarmac and load a private plane.
  — oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2021
• My initial flight sat on the tarmac for over three hours and was unable to find crew to load the luggage on the plane.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• Ask to sit in the viewing area on the tarmac, and order a Red Eye or Airmail cocktail around the firepit.
  — Melanie D.g. Kaplan / Washington Post, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2019
• The airline had the lowest rate of two-hour tarmac delays.
  — Allison Pohle, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Only one tarmac road connects the tiny airstrip to the harbor town.
  — Rachel Howard, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2024
• The woman passed away before the flight took off, while the plane was still sitting on the runway, or tarmac.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• Agholor then turned on the jets and left Hall flat-footed on the tarmac before hauling in Bourne’s pass.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2021
• The women were ushered back on the tarmac onto a bare windowless plane and asked to sit on the floor.
  — cincinnati.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• His request for assistance to get back to the nearby tarmac and potentially rejoin the session proved futile.
  — Luke Smith, The Athletic, 6 July 2024
• Car racing was a passion of Muniz's since his early days on Malcolm, however, and after the series bowed, acting immediately took a backseat to his tarmac dreams.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2025