How to Use air base in a Sentence

air base

noun
  • Most are involved in the construction of a new air base there.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2018
  • Planes, hangars and housing at the air base suffered heavy damage.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The airport is adjacent to an air base used by Mali’s air force.
    — Mark Banchereau, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The airport is adjacent to an air base used by Mali's air force.
    — CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The city has a sprawling air base and is home to an infantry division.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • The crash took place on March 10 at an air base near Vasilkov, Ukraine.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Outside the air base today, the burn pit has been planted over with green grass, but the fields around it look dead.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
  • This serves as offices, boudoirs, hospital rooms, air bases, the streets of Rome.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • The flight brought the evacuees to a military air base in Abu Dhabi.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The first stop for Cohen and his colleagues was the Hatzor air base.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Friday’s attack is at least the second strike on the Saudi air base.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Russell Williams once led Canada’s largest air base and flew world leaders.
    — Christina Coulter, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Among the first strikes targeted was the Mehrabad air base in Tehran, where some air fleet is likely held.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 16 June 2025
  • Yet none of this advice stopped the president from abandoning the Bagram air base.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The two were among other servicemembers who made three trips between the air base and airfield over three days.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Bolsonaro took off from Brasília’s air base in a Brazilian Air Force plane.
    — Camilo Rocha, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • In the strike on the Russian air base, Ukrainian forces destroyed eight fighter jets.
    — Eric Schmitt, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2022
  • That is why the United States carried out a missile strike on the air base that launched the attack.
    — Lisa Marie Segarra, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The bombers took off from an air base in Guam, which North Korea has threatened to target.
    — Author: Carol Morello, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Aircraft shelters at the air base to the north of the complex also appear to be damaged or destroyed.
    — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Trump spoke with the families of the fallen members at the air base before the bodies arrived.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Trump’s post marks a quick escalation from his public comments about the air base earlier this week.
    — Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The president did not disclose other details on plans to recover the air base.
    — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Bucha was a target from the start of the war, because of the Hostomel military air base, less than three miles from my house.
    — Elena Rubashevska, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The Russian air force has deployed Backfire bombers to its air base in Syria.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • That’s because the tankers will have to fly to a Riverside County air base to get more retardant.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
  • Nelly fell in love with a young Austrian Nazi and had worked for a year on a German air base.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The missing plane was part of a four plane training flight that took off from Misawa air base on the evening of April 9th.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2019
  • The British jets were joined by Swedish Gripen jets at the Malbork air base in northern Poland.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Satellite imagery seen by Reuters shows a buildup of white tents since late May on a roughly 11-acre plot on the air base.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 10 June 2026

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