Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belly-lands
Verb
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The moon touches down on your ninth house, stirring curiosity, faith, wanderlust and a lust for something bigger than your usual routine.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026 -
Just before Mel's finger touches down on the device, however, the preview cuts to black, leaving their next adventure a mystery.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Feb. 2026
Verb
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By late afternoon, people tend to drift toward a neighbor’s backyard, someone lights the barbecue, and kids sort themselves into games of backyard cricket.—
Alli Forde,
Travel + Leisure,
8 June 2026
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Turn the pool lights off at night.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
7 June 2026
Verb
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When a project fails and the postmortem begins, the question of who was responsible for this person's judgment lands somewhere specific.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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But the temporary arena is covering nearly the entirety of the White House's South Lawn, where Marine One usually lands to ferry the president to out-of-town trips and gobs of kids scramble in the grass during the Easter Egg Roll every spring.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
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“Belly-lands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belly-lands. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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