How to Use tarmac in a Sentence

tarmac

noun

• All of the men left the jet and were standing on the tarmac.
  — Ben Foldy, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• The truck rammed through a gate and went onto the tarmac.
  — Julie Luchetta, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• From the tarmac, Griner spoke on the phone with Biden and wife, Cherelle Griner.
  — Ben Gittleson, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• The men, Warren among them, were lined up on the tarmac.
  — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2022
• Those aboard the flight deplaned on the tarmac with the help of airstairs and were bussed to the terminal.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 3 Oct. 2022
• Griner and Bout crossed paths on a tarmac in the United Arab Emirates, the site of the exchange.
  — Kris Rhim, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• On the tarmac at the Nashua Airport sat a dinky white plane with wings mounted over the fuselage.
  — Kurt G. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• The women were ushered back on the tarmac onto a bare windowless plane and asked to sit on the floor.
  — cincinnati.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• In most lineups, there is at least one trim with off-roading specs, ready to jump off the tarmac and tackle the rocks.
  — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• Get inspired by the looks of 8 women below who nail just-0ff-the-tarmac chic.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2022
• From space, in fact, the Afghans at the airport don’t look like humans at all but rather tiny dots scattered across a tarmac.
  — Jordan G. Teicher, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2022
• She was told the bees had been removed from the cooler and put on the tarmac because some might have been escaping from the crates.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• The architect’s favorite is the Drawing room that offers views of the tarmac.
  — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022
• In March, protesters stormed the tarmac at an airport in the countryside and set a small plane on fire.
  — Fox News, 14 June 2022
• Once the engines are turned off, so is the air conditioning as the planes sit atop broiling tarmac.
  — Macie Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• All sorts of emergency vehicles were on the tarmac prepared for the worst.
  — Cantor Glenn Sherman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022
• That year, some aircraft circled overhead or sat on the tarmac for more than an hour and a half, waiting for the airspace and runway to clear.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2022
• According to Bay Minette police, the plane taxied to the end of the tarmac before overturning.
  — Tandra Smith | [e-mail], al, 14 Mar. 2022
• Porsche's Taycan EV line now includes a wagon body style with an off-tarmac twist.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 13 Jan. 2023
• Kim and the Albanian foreign minister then met the flight on the tarmac, Slotkin said.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• Coates sent location scouts searching for large expanses of tarmac that would feature in the lead-up to the launch.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• Ahead lies almost 500 miles of Spanish tarmac, the road to the beaches of San Sebastián, and a car begging to be remembered.
  — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
• Standing on the tarmac inside a bunker in San Antonio hours later, Cherelle saw Brittney's face from the window of the plane and their eyes met.
  — Alicia Dennis, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2022
• In March, the wings of two United Airlines planes clipped one another while both aircraft were on the airport’s tarmac.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• The section of the track between Turns 3 and 4 were repaved since the race last February, leading drivers to believe that the fresh tarmac would lead to much higher grip.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2023
• Brittney Griner’s ten-month-long ordeal at the hands of a mafia state ended Thursday in a prisoner swap on a tarmac in Abu Dhabi.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Dec. 2022
• Drummond refused to comply with flight attendants as the plane taxied from the gate to the tarmac, according to the release.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2022
• Some airlines were boarding flights but passengers were waiting in planes parked on the tarmac.
  — Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2023
• Footage of the plaintiff being detained on the tarmac upon arrival at La Guardia was shared to Twitter by a fellow passenger on the day of the flight.
  — Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2022
• According to his father, Trevor was first flown from Russia to Turkey where he was exchanged on the tarmac for Yaroshenko.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2022

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