airstrip

noun

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air·strip | \ ˈer-ˌstrip

Definition of airstrip

: a runway without normal air base or airport facilities

Examples of airstrip in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In the meantime, scientists will continue to await more detailed weather information from Perseverance and scope out an ideal airstrip for the helicopter. — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2021 Perseverance in turn relayed the commands to Ingenuity, which was sitting 200 feet away on flat terrain that was chosen to serve as the airstrip for a series of five test flights. — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021 Each location has its own airstrip for guests’ arrival and departure. — Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021 Japan’s most remote airstrip, on Yonaguni Island, is fewer than 100 miles from Taiwan. — David Axe, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021 Hing had sold it in 1938 after another plane crashed into the little Fleet aircraft while it was parked on an airstrip. — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2021 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 drive-through mass vaccination site on a defunct airstrip here in East Hartford, outside Connecticut’s capital, shows the promise and the drawbacks of the approach. — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021 Once inside, Ramminger and two accomplices simply loaded a modern, operational AIM-9 missile into a wheelbarrow and wheeled it down the airstrip to his waiting Mercedes-Benz. — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2021

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