How to Use airlift in a Sentence

airlift

noun
  • There was nowhere to land, and the cliffs were too close for an airlift.
    — Michael Easter, Outside Online, 13 May 2021
  • Halvorsen returned to the Berlin airlift for a few more weeks.
    — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Austin said the airlift would continue for as long as possible.
    — Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Tens of thousands sought to flee the country as a result in a harrowing airlift.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Rather than scuba gear, the divers use hookahs attached to small fishing boats for breathing and then dive down with the airlift.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Cuenca, the country’s third city, is being supplied by airlifts.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Outside, an American plane used during the airlift still rests on the field.
    — Joyce Lee, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Biden has set Tuesday as the deadline for completing the airlift.
    — Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Those troops are trapped for now, since Turkey has cut off the roads; removing them may require an airlift.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • They were recovered from the rocky trail and the high altitude through a helicopter airlift.
    — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
  • By the time a medical airlift was clear for takeoff from Juneau, the medicine had begun working.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Some have caught coveted seats on emergency airlifts and boats across the Red Sea.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Together the two campaigns formed the largest airlift in history.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The men heaped praise on Qatar for its role in the airlift; more people transited through the country than any other.
    — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Fires in Greece caused wartime-scale airlifts of tourists and ammunition depots to explode.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • In total, the bovine airlift is expected to bring in the 4,000 cows within about a month.
    — Mohammed Sergie, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017
  • The parachute brigade is like a rescue team arriving to save the day, a Berlin airlift for the beleaguered soul.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • The emergency airlift was supposed to supply Charlottesville with food for a week or two.
    — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • His work is just one example of the largest supply effort since the Cold War and the Berlin airlift.
    — NBC News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Big airlifts began in the 1980s, when Ethiopia suffered tyranny and famine.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • No one, including the United States, uses airlift to move this much armor.
    — Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Dramatic video of the airlift shows the woman spinning at a high pace on the stretcher dangling below the helicopter.
    — Fox News, 5 June 2019
  • Those memories were on Khogyani's mind when he was given permission in August to join the airlift.
    — John Blake, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The Taliban pledged that once the airlift was complete, Afghans with travel documents would be free to leave the country.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The combination of the camps being cut off and the remote possibility that the fire could swing their way, has led to the airlift, which will last for days.
    — Ian Austen and Dan Levin, New York Times, 5 May 2016
  • They were transferred to different hospitals in Wyoming and Montana via an airlift.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The airlift began 40 years ago and is made possible by volunteer pilots and aircraft owners.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • How operators prepare The Special Olympics airlift takes years of planning to pull off.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • They were all hospitalized, and the driver's injuries were severe enough to necessitate an airlift, police said.
    — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The media wanted to cheerlead the airlift and the evacuees, so criticism of the Biden admin’s botch of a withdrawal has now been muted.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 Sep. 2021

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