How to Use airfield in a Sentence

airfield

noun
  • There’s a scene that takes place at an airfield.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 Aug. 2025
  • How does your hometown airfield stack up?
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That was a rainy, cold, three in the morning night out at an airfield.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The air above the airfield was thick was smoke as sirens filled the air after the blast.
    — Katie Wadington, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Footage from the crash scene showed thick, black smoke billowing from the airfield.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026
  • The assembly of the roof had to take place on an empty airfield.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Gray was picked up on the road by a local farmer and was driven back to the airfield safe and sound.
    — Annie Gentile, Courant Community, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Fritz circled the airfield, in an attempt to get the birds to fall in behind.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Onlookers were lining up along the gates that run around the airfield.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Steve Fehr asked the controller four times where the private airfield was.
    — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The island has at least two airfields, and women had flares aboard to alert people on land.
    — Caleb Jones, Houston Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Ford also built an adjoining airfield so bombers could roll straight from the line to flight tests.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
  • So what happened to that busy and historic little airfield?
    — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The airfield is home to about 130 planes and dozens of student pilots.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • His backyard is located but a few hundred yards south of the airfield.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 15 June 2026
  • The base has closed the airfield and said all inbound planes are being diverted.
    — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 15 June 2026
  • Later, the truck bringing her mother and two of her sisters to the airfield broke down.
    — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • In one infamous error, the app showed an airfield on the site of a farm in Dublin.
    — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Why not sip a drink and enjoy the airfield views through the floor to ceiling windwows that run the length of the lounge?
    — Michele Robson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The young troops stood between the masses and the airfield, forming a human wall.
    — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Nelson had been stationed at the airfield that had been built on her property and the two were close friends.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The private space is on airport grounds and near the airfield, but away from the main terminals.
    — Miami Herald, 18 June 2026
  • She is being given access to secure areas of the airfield to aid in the search.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • At one point, after a handful of lessons, the two told Garza that some friends had come to the airfield to meet him.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The rover is currently driving to the center of the airfield and should arrive in a few days.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Crews then inspected the airfield.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • 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 passenger walked out onto the wing of the plane and slid down onto the airfield, police said.
    — Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • After eight hours in the air, the plane bumped down on an airstrip in an airfield in Konya, Turkey.
    — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The next morning, Coleman and the mechanic did a test run over the airfield.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022

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