How to Use airfield in a Sentence

airfield

noun

• Video footage shared on Telegram appeared to show a large fire and massive plumes of dark smoke at the airfield.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• The battlefield was built on a flat airfield that’s about the size of three football fields outside of Prague.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 1 Mar. 2023
• The pilot looks ahead and down, and sees the edge of the airfield at an angle of declination of 27.9 degrees.
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022
• Now, Stars and Stripes reports that the brigade has renamed its airfield to honor the two pilots.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2023
• She is being given access to secure areas of the airfield to aid in the search.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• The airbase, which is one of the busiest military airfields in the U.K., is home to a number of frontline squadrons and training units.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• In a statement, the airport said that there was water on the south end of the airfield, but that runways were not impacted.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
• That means work on view in both the exhibition tent, the airport’s Barker Hangar and outdoors around the airfield.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• If the Philippine government agreed, the United States could use the airfields and ports to exert control over the region.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• The Saturday after Giannone’s flight, Anger was back at the airfield in Mesa for more flights.
  — The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2022
• When the global conflict ended, the reigning Duke built a fast, flowing 2.4-mile racecourse around the airfield.
  — Bob Sorokanich, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023
• The North African war was being waged mostly along coastal areas, where Axis airfields and bases were strung out.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Last year, a soldier was killed in a helicopter incident at the post's airfield.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• Al-Arish military airfield with the mercy flight plane in the background.
  — NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
• In that first Gymkhana video, Block hucks a black-and-green Subaru into long drifts around an empty airfield, kicking up walls of white tire smoke.
  — Mike Dobuski, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
• The exiled mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said a Russian base near an airfield was struck.
  — Isabel Coles, wsj.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The airport's airfield team has been on standby in case they are needed, according to a news release.
  — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 1 Feb. 2023
• The media would be prognosticating whether the U.S. would bomb the Russian airfield that launched the balloon, complete with sad faces of gloom and doom.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Cappella has since had historic markers placed on the airfield site.
  — cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
• Officials in the Russian city of Kursk, just north of Ukraine, said the Tuesday drone attack set an oil storage tank ablaze at an airfield.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
• Santa Barbara Airport closed due to flooding on the airfield.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The frozen lake portion of the sequence was filmed separately at an airfield near London.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• The other explosion occurred when a fuel tanker blew up at an airfield in Ryazan.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2022
• That first strike at the airfield destroyed much of the air power and munitions stores of the Black Sea Fleet’s 43rd naval aviation regiment.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• This will help address things like roads, bridges, utilities, and airfields that, in many cases, haven't seen an update in decades.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024
• But Ukraine’s airfields, training bases, weapons factories and railheads more or less were safe.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 2 May 2023
• Ukraine struck helicopters at airfields in Russia with the missiles.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2023
• The airport kept its airfield fully operational after the arctic front whipped through the area.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2022
• Berlin said that masses of Allied parachute troops bailed out over Normandy, trying to seize airfields.
  — Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
• On one terrace—in a space that spans nearly the entire length of the lounge — feature the action of the airfield and is an ideal spot for aviation aficionados.
  — Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024