crash-land
verb
crash-landed; crash-landing; crash-lands
: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft
: to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft
crash landing
noun
Examples of crash-land in a Sentence
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But not before one carload of Nazis flies off the bridge and crash-lands in front of them.
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Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
Plane Jane is revealing Bob the Drag Queen's reaction to the season 16 queen crash-landing her gleeful RuPaul's Drag Race reign of mischief on Madonna's runway last month.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
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
That mission was a follow-up to Chandrayaan-2, which crash-landed in 2019.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 26 Feb. 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
Four people were killed and one was critically injured when a hot air balloon crash-landed in the desert in Eloy, Arizona, on Sunday morning, the Eloy Police Department said.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
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
Unlike the surviving family in the film, McNamara crash-lands.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
Plane Jane is revealing Bob the Drag Queen's reaction to the season 16 queen crash-landing her gleeful RuPaul's Drag Race reign of mischief on Madonna's runway last month.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
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
That mission was a follow-up to Chandrayaan-2, which crash-landed in 2019.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 26 Feb. 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
Four people were killed and one was critically injured when a hot air balloon crash-landed in the desert in Eloy, Arizona, on Sunday morning, the Eloy Police Department said.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
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
Unlike the surviving family in the film, McNamara crash-lands.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
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“Crash-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crash-land. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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