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Recent Examples of airstripOf course, romanticism has never been Denis’ thing, and from the moment Leonie touches down at a tiny airstrip, the reality of where she’s landed becomes apparent.—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025 In 2003, 21-year-old Katharine Lampman was fatally crushed under a moving art car, while plane crashes at the temporary airstrip and a truck rollover caused additional injuries.—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 While tribal members can’t access the airstrip, some trails are no longer accessible.—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025 Zambada was arrested in July 2024 alongside Joaquin Guzman Lopez, one of Guzman's sons, after the plane in which they were traveling landed at a small airstrip in New Mexico.—Luc Cohen, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for airstrip
Today, the shells continue to be found on powwow regalia (Russell McCloud is an in-demand artist for traditional breastplates), as well as on avant-garde runway fashions and fine jewelry pieces.
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Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
13 Oct. 2025
The shift Cadogan describes suggests those tactics have run out of runway for a growing slice of the country, especially younger and lower-income households who rent, commute, and carry variable-rate debt.
The helicopter, paid for by Harris, was late taking off from the Millenium Downtown heliport (as Gelitin found out through staying in contact via a cache of clunky cellphones).
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Kyle MacNeill,
Rolling Stone,
10 Sep. 2025
The resort, reachable via private heliport or a roughly two-hour drive past small villages, consists of six circular one-bedroom luxury lodges and one three-bedroom treetop villa.
He was then put in the back of a pickup truck and taken to a landing strip, where he was forced onto a private jet headed for the United States.
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Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
Demonstrators lined both sides of the narrow two-way road leading to the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, a remote landing strip just north of Tamiami Trail.
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