airstrip

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Recent Examples of airstrip Meanwhile, the Chinchero International Airport is set to open late next year in the Sacred Valley, even closer to Machu Picchu than the current airstrip in Cusco. Mark Johanson, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025 There's also an underground vault, two observation platforms, telescopes and an airstrip. Jamie Carter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025 Of 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 See All Example Sentences for airstrip
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Noun
  • Wing It Cafe, a restaurant with a view of the runway at a small private airport northwest of Fort Worth, has closed, according to the restaurant’s social media.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Kylie Jenner is at her best in her vintage era, often opting for Gianni-era Versace runway moments, major pieces from the Thierry Mugler archives, and rare Comme des Garçons.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Scenes in Meredith Grey's (Ellen Pompeo) house and on the rooftop helipad of Grey Sloan Memorial are both filmed in the Emerald City, per Los Angeles Magazine.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But if the hotel has made the town enticing to a new kind of visitor—say, one who appreciates the convenience of its helipad—the property has none of the hermetic insularity of a traditional resort.
    David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The two were transported under heavy security via helicopter from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to a Manhattan heliport and taken by motorcade to the courthouse hours before the proceedings.
    CBS News, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The chopper flew across New York harbor and landed at a Manhattan heliport, where Maduro, limping, was loaded into an armored vehicle.
    Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Schuster said the angle at which the landing area crosses the Fujian’s deck is only 6 degrees off center, compared with 9 degrees on the US carriers, limiting space between the landing strip and the forward two catapults.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Radcliffe brought us down smoothly on an unpaved landing strip amid camel thorn and euphorbia trees, their foliage scorched by the elements.
    Aatish Taseer, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This dimension of the work was heightened by its site, a former helicopter landing field on an old NATO base, given over to the Autostrada Biennale in 2014 as part of a process of demilitarization in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008.
    Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The teens were evaluated by medical personnel at a landing field before they were released, rescuers said.
    Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2025

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“Airstrip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airstrip. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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