crash-land

verb

Definition of crash-landnext
as in to belly-land

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Recent Examples of crash-land Another biggie movie, the 1980s Cold War action movie follows a U.S. pilot who crash-lands in the USSR, only to be nurtured back by a local woodsman, who is a fan of the U.S. From the trailer, the Skydance Media pic looks to be akin to Spies Like Us with a dose of Top Gun. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026 An alien known only as Experiment 626 (Chris Sanders) flees his home planet and crash-lands in Hawaii, where he is adopted by a grieving young girl named Lilo (Daveigh Chase), who takes him for a dog and dubs him Stitch. — David Faris, TheWeek, 27 Jan. 2026 Published by Amazon Original Stories for its Kindle platform last year, the story told of a group of mercenaries that crash-land on a remote snow summit. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025 Meanwhile, Okarun and Jiji — ejected from the Buddha robot — crash-land in a nearby rice field. — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crash-land
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crash-land
  1. belly-land
  2. land
  3. alight
  4. touch down
  5. roost
  6. light
  7. perch
Verb
  • Jeju Air's Boeing 737-800 burst into flames after it belly-landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea, killing all but two people on board.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
  • In the worst air disaster in South Korean history, 179 people were killed when a Boeing 737-800 belly-landed and skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport.
    — David Hodari, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of belly-land
Verb
  • Ring-walk timing slides with how the undercard runs, so the later fights may land earlier or later than the estimates below.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • If you’re headed north after landing at the airport, do yourself a favor and check out these places.
    — Justin Brown, AJC.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of land
Verb
  • Sometimes, as the air warmed, a group of butterflies would alight into the air all at once, a tangerine explosion.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • The girl’s father looks down at the child, both smiling, eyes alight, and joins her on the floor.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 15 July 2026
Definition of alight
Verb
  • The pilots in the Delta Boeing 737 saw the potential collision and aborted their landing, eventually circling the airport before safely touching down.
    — Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
  • Russell Crowe is also expected to touch down with his documentary What Love Builds.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 July 2026
Definition of touch down
Verb
  • But Dimon is also in the camp of individuals worried about how America’s borrowing habit may come home to roost.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 14 July 2026
  • To search for evidence of fire use, the researchers analyzed rodent bones littering the cave, deposited over thousands of years by roosting owls.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
Definition of roost
Verb
  • Deer Park’s screen is just a standard rectangle, lit by a single laser digital projector that can’t display the film’s full aspect ratio.
    — Lane Brown, Vulture, 25 July 2026
  • Prosecutors alleged Stout lit a car on fire near popular swimming spots and pushed the burning vehicle down a 60-foot embankment in Upper Bidwell Park east of Chico, where the Park Fire started July 24, 2024.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026
Definition of light
Verb
  • On Thursday morning, fat bees perched on black-and-blue sage flowers, and doves loudly fluttered from fruit tree to fruit tree.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026
  • This Mexican state that’s perched on the Pacific coast has played host to two previous iterations of the world’s biggest sporting event throughout the decades (in 1970 and 1986, to be exact).
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 23 July 2026
Definition of perch

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