How to Use airstrip in a Sentence

airstrip

noun
  • Watch planes at an ocean airstrip.
    — Teaghan Skulszki, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In the '60s, a hotel, golf course — and even an airstrip — were added.
    — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
  • There were giraffes and lions milling around just beyond the airstrip.
    — Barbara King, House Beautiful, 9 Sep. 2013
  • By the end of next week, staff said, the airstrip will look as though the vaccine site were never there.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 30 June 2021
  • The transfer from the airstrip to the lodge by was by van and took 45 minutes.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
  • One of the missiles hit near an airstrip where six drones were parked, causing no damage.
    — Time, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The next day, civilians shoved their way through barbed wire and flooded onto the airstrip.
    — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The depot was a big place with a private airstrip, and the guy had been driving all night.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 July 2025
  • Yards from the airstrip lay the hull of a small plane that, residents say, crashed over the summer.
    — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Only one tarmac road connects the tiny airstrip to the harbor town.
    — Rachel Howard, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2024
  • My first glimpse of an elephant came as our safari game viewer bumped along the road from the airstrip to camp.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026
  • During the past few decades, airstrips have been hacked out, so that bush planes can ferry people and goods.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Nearby was a private airstrip with a hangar and helipad.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The aircraft uses ground effect to lift heavy loads without the need for an airstrip or ship port.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Parishioners also bought water from their homes to the airstrip to be blessed by Barzare.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The cart crossed a wooden bridge linking the eastern part of the island with the airstrip on the west.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The temperature drops, and the airstrip, a few miles outside town, shuts down.
    — New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Our last flight of the day was a charter flight to a dirt airstrip that doesn't appear on any aviation maps.
    — Georgia Dean, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2018
  • The crash occurred in a grass field near the airstrip after the pilot attempted to turn around.
    — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Want to arrange a sushi chef to fly in to a backcountry airstrip for a night with a cooler of fresh sashimi?
    — Christopher Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The hunters’ camp was situated atop the hill at the end of the airstrip, Johnson said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • Part of it was crafted from steel airstrip landing mats left over from the Vietnam War.
    — Cindy Carcamo, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Our final day, driving to the airstrip, Ntwayagae pulled over one last time.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The airstrip was made for Earhart’s trip, and was built and maintained by colonists brought mostly from Hawaii.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • 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 fur of a polar bear dried in a rack next to the airstrip where small planes carry passengers, frozen foods and other goods.
    — Luis Andres Henao, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Smaller unmanned aircraft don’t need a military airstrip to launch.
    — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Locals gathered at the grass airstrip to welcome them as the gleaming Electra rolled to a stop.
    — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • After the short, scenic flight to the airstrip, your dedicated safari guide will escort you to the lodge.
    — Travis Levius, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The fighter plane can take off and land on short runways, remote airstrips, and reinforced public roads.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026

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