How to Use airspace in a Sentence

airspace

noun

• The airspace above New York City is among the busiest in the world.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
• The ash plume forced the closure of most of Europe’s airspace for the better part of a week.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• Air rights include the right to build in the airspace above a property.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• The airspace leases have brought in more than $170 million over the past five years.
  — Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Ukrainian airspace has been closed since early in the war.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• The airspace leases have brought in more than $170 million for public transportation over the past five years.
  — Christopher Weber, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• Coup leaders in Niger announced a closure of its airspace, causing flights to reroute around the country.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
• Dominican officials also closed the airspace to flights to and from Haiti.
  — Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
• There were two layers of glass, separated by some airspace and backed by a black sheet of metal.
  — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
• Niger's coup leaders shut the country's airspace, citing the military threat.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 Aug. 2023
• Areas under and next to the freeway are considered airspace.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The balloon first passed through American airspace in Alaska north of the Aleutian Islands.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• Air traffic at the facility about 9 miles southwest of Moscow was halted after a drone was shot down in the airspace around the city.
  — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
• The warplane clipped the drone’s propeller in international airspace, leading to its crash in the Black Sea.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 16 Mar. 2023
• Kansas State ran Furphy off the 3-point line, got into his airspace and made life difficult for the Aussie guard on the offensive end.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
• The polar route Chinese airlines aren’t the only ones still using Russian airspace.
  — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
• In a statement, the ministry said the Norwegian plane had neared Russian airspace but then had moved away after the Russian jet approached.
  — NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Alternatively, the drones might rush ahead, into airspace too well defended to risk the pilot’s life or the jet.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2023
• Rarely has a fine old building’s airspace been used to such sympathetic effect.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2023
• Authorities closed the airspace over St. Petersburg in response to what some reports said was a drone.
  — Susie Blann, ajc, 1 Mar. 2023
• Researchers could not confirm if the balloon that entered U.S. airspace was launched from the same facility.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2023
• To evade Ukrainian air defenses, Russia has been forced to launch missile attacks while still over its own airspace.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2023
• Israel has all the while kept tight control over Gaza’s coastal waters, its airspace, its airwaves, and all of the crossings into the Strip except for a small one maintained by Egypt.
  — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2023
• Iranian airspace was obviously unsafe, and his wife and daughter were about to board a plane.
  — Amir Ahmadi Arian, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The main purpose of the escort is to get the pilot of the plane to heed radio communications to safely leave the restricted airspace, Hejduk said.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The control tower is, after all, the brains behind the ongoing dance of departures, arrivals, and airspace.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
• The balloon is now out of Hawaii’s airspace and territorial waters.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 1 May 2023
• Israeli jets and anti-air systems soon began to intercept the drones over Israeli airspace.
  — WIRED, 21 Oct. 2023
• Before the intrusion into Greek airspace on Friday, Erdogan seemed to be on board.
  — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 17 July 2023
• In a bid to solve that issue, the Philippines will close the whole country’s airspace for six hours on May 17 to replace malfunctioning electrical equipment.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024