airstrip

[ UK /ˈe‍əstɹɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɹˌstɹɪp/ ]
NOUN
  1. an airfield without normal airport facilities
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How To Use airstrip In A Sentence

  • The site has its own airstrip and light aircraft service, and its own small marina.
  • Despite the speed of the ground troops, airstrips were always within 100 miles of the front lines.
  • Under the covering fire of the gunships, troop-carrying helicopters raced into the airstrip.
  • Having just completed an audacious leap from aircraft into the jaws of death, five hundred feet above Munsan-ni, against a numerically superior and fanatical force, we were ready to return to K-2 Airstrip at Taegu. Lafayette Keaton
  • The bumpy flight to a grassy jungle airstrip was just 45 minutes but it took us back a thousand years. The Sun
  • The demand for air travel continued to grow and with that demand came better aircraft, safer airstrips, and more experienced pilots.
  • Scattered around the airstrip are some of Afghanistan's 10 million landmines, which every day leave innocent civilians limbless.
  • The first cover story for the airstrip was that a group of businessmen wanted to start up a tourist resort there.
  • In the end, he came to my landlocked town of Nelson, British Columbia, and we fished for kokanee from the city wharf, sandwiched unromantically between the hotel and the airstrip.
  • We landed on a grass airstrip, fifteen minutes after leaving Mahe.
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