How to Use crash-land in a Sentence

crash-land

verb

• But not before one carload of Nazis flies off the bridge and crash-lands in front of them.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
• Sure enough, mid-flight, a hole is blown in the fuselage, and Zsa-zsa, taking the controls, crash-lands the plane.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
• In the first, the girls crash-land in a vast wilderness on their way to a soccer tournament.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• In the first, the girls crash-land in a vast wilderness on their way to a soccer tournament.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• But the Louvre appears, at first glance, to be a flying saucer that has crash-landed on the beach.
  — John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
• Then, things get bumpy at Prodigy City when a huge spaceship crash-lands right in the middle of it.
  — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 5 June 2025
• Society of the Snow aims to retell the story of the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• Touch down wrong, and the spacecraft may have faced a fate like Hayabusa, which crash-landed on its asteroid.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• Things go from routine to catastrophic when the team’s helicopter gets blown off course in a freak storm and crash-lands in the DPRK.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
• Some ibises crash-landed, while a couple of others flew off and went missing for hours.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• The electric vehicle dropped some 300 feet before crash-landing just feet from the waves of the Pacific Ocean.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• Shortly after, the plane issued a mayday alert and crash-landed.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 30 Dec. 2024
• Days later, a Jeju Air flight crash-landed in South Korea.
  — Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
• The action thriller stars Gerard Butler and Mike Colter as a commercial pilot and a fugitive who crash-land in a war zone.
  — EW.com, 13 June 2025
• The ship carrying Ripley and her crew at the end of Aliens crash-lands on the prison planet Fiorina 161, with Ripley as the sole survivor.
  — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 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
• After she’s captured by Skrulls who try to probe her memories, Vers crash-lands in 1995 Los Angeles.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
• After she’s captured by Skrulls who try to probe her memories, Vers crash-lands in 1995 Los Angeles.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• When the alien craft crash-landed, Wendy volunteered to retrieve the cargo, only to find carnage within.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2025
• Authorities were working on Monday to confirm the identities of more than three dozen of the 179 people who were killed when the plane crash-landed.
  — Joohee Cho, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2024
• When Ripley crash-lands on the planetoid along with one xenomorph running loose and a another one growing inside her, the monks regard her as a kind of witch.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• Plane crash In 2016, a small plane towing a banner crash-landed on a Detroit residential street.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2024
• But when Chief, the ornery stray, gets overruled into helping his pack assist a boy who’s crash-landed on their trash island, Cranston really nails it.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
• But when Chief, the ornery stray, gets overruled into helping his pack assist a boy who’s crash-landed on their trash island, Cranston really nails it.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
• The film follows a boy from the distant future who crash-lands in 2075 after misusing a time-travel suit, forming a poignant bond with Iris, a lonely girl raised by a robot.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 14 June 2025
• But the plane veered hundreds of miles off course after being diverted over the Caspian Sea towards Kazakhstan, and crash-landed near the city of Aktau, killing at least 38 of the 67 people on board.
  — Harriet Marsden, theweek, 27 Dec. 2024
• One day, a government agent named Aster (Lena Headey) crash-lands nearby, claiming she’s been sent to study strange rocks recently discovered in the area.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2023
• The pilot of a single-engine plane crash-landed in a Compton neighborhood near the airport Wednesday morning.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The plane crash-landed at the Sioux City, Iowa, airport, sliding into an adjacent cornfield and killing Bailey’s mother and 111 others.
  — John Blake, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
• The authorities are investigating what caused a plane to crash-land and flip over on the runway in Toronto yesterday.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025