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landing strip
nounDefinition of landing strip
: airstrip
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Whether the shorter-than-average landing strips end with an abrupt drop-off or mountainous terrain makes for a twisting flight path, getting to and from these airports takes some serious know-how. — Amanda Greene, Woman's Day, "10 Terrifying Airport Runways," 27 Apr. 2011 Coming in for a landing you are confronted with a mass of craggy peaks; on the very top is the single, narrow landing strip, with sharp drop-offs on either side. — Peter Greenberg, Town & Country, "Unfriendly Skies," 7 Feb. 2014 The Air Canada Airbus SE A320’s pilots were supposed to land on the right of two parallel landing strips at San Francisco International. — Alan Levin, Bloomberg.com, "Runway Lights Baffled Pilots on Night of San Francisco Near-Miss," 2 May 2018 Aviation experts are particularly concerned about engine hazards for twin-engine jets flying long overwater routes that routinely take them three hours or more from emergency landing strips. — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, "FAA Expands Engine Checks After Southwest Accident," 21 June 2018 Morning Start where everyone starts their best days on the coastside: 3-Zero Cafe, the greasy spoon adjacent to the airport’s main landing strip. — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, "One Day, One Place: Half Moon Bay harbor," 11 July 2018 What Veeramoney doesn’t say, but Windows Ink users know, is that the landing strip for e-inking within Windows is relatively small. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "How Intel is quietly designing the future of dual-display PCs inside its labs," 4 June 2018 From touchdown on the landing strip to takeoff on another mission—including refueling and rearming with four 1,000-pound Mk.84 unguided bombs—required only 20 minutes. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "The A-10 Warthog Was a Badass Even in This Old-School '70s Film," 3 May 2018 The first Pacific task the battalion had was to build Marine landing strips for Corsair fighter planes in support of Marine ground units. — Paul Wood, The Seattle Times, "EXCHANGE: Veteran talks about building during wartime," 20 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'landing strip.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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