How to Use landing field in a Sentence

landing field

noun
  • Her friend decided to meet the pilots in the landing field.
    CNN, 2022-02-25
  • But just as a scene begins to flatten, an aircraft crashes into a tree or flips cleanly onto its back on a landing field, instantly reviving the narrative.
    Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 2022-11-29
  • Knight chose hazard—and glory—eventually touching down in Iowa City, where workers had lit barrels of gasoline to outline the landing field.
    Adam Cohen, Smithsonian, 2018-05-18
  • By January of the new year, HdF teams take to the roads the race will cross in order to locate nearby landing fields and drop zones (including those on private property).
    Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 2019-07-11
  • The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and today is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2019-12-24
  • The visit got off to a rough start when the delegation’s plane had to abort its landing attempt at Lajes because of high winds — a not-uncommon occurrence there — and divert to a landing field on another island 165 miles away.
    Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 2018-04-24

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