How to Use no-fly zone in a Sentence

no-fly zone

noun
  • The middle of the field, once Warner’s no-fly zone, is now wide open.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Putthoff added that there will be a no-fly zone for drones in Meadowbrook Park.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
  • The no-fly zone restrictions were also exceptional in their length and scope.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Just asking a center to hang out in the dunker spot is death, because Victor is going to make the entire paint a no-fly zone.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Public roadways will remain open, and a no-fly zone for drones will be in effect at Meadowbrook Park.
    — Ian Cummings, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
  • If Payton's keeping receipts, Superman is about to enter a no-fly zone.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2026
  • If Payton’s keeping receipts, Superman is about to enter a no-fly zone.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The statement said that between sunrise and sunset, the no-fly zone would apply except for manned aircraft which had filed a flight plan and had a transponder switched on.
    — Brendan Cole john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Operations are ongoing and the area has been closed off, with a no-fly zone in place over Crans-Montana, police said.
    — Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Kyiv's allies have instead supplied it with air defense systems, missiles and aircraft in the hope on that Ukraine can provide its own no-fly zone.
    — Robert Birsel shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Sweeping ban The capital already had tighter restrictions, with a no-fly zone that kept expanding over recent years.
    — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
  • Police said many people were being treated for burns and that the area had been completely closed off, with a no-fly zone imposed over Crans-Montana.
    — Emily Deletter, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
  • During World Cup matches, there will be a three-mile-radius no-fly zone around the stadium, up to 30,000 feet.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
  • Sources said the drones took off from the northeast of the Irish capital, breaching a no-fly zone as Zelensky arrived for his official visit.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The Lincoln returned to the region several times in the 1990s to help enforce the no-fly zone over southern Iraq.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The Kremlin said its aircraft reacted to a violation of a no-fly zone Russia has established in the area near Crimea.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Nearly two-thirds (62 percent) now back establishing a no-fly zone over the area in the event of a Chinese invasion—an increase of 11 points year-on-year.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
  • With only the map to go on and no idea how to contact the airport in Pyongyang, the pilots headed toward the no-fly zone between North and South Koreas.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In it, a collection of European states would establish a no-fly zone, first over western Ukrainian territory and later over central Ukraine.
    — Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Expect a no-fly zone around Mercedes-Benz Stadium and Centennial Olympic Park during the World Cup.
    — Emily McLeod, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • Since then, F-15Es have been used for air expeditionary force deployments and operations, including the no-fly zone in Southern Iraq as well as in Turkey and Bosnia.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Poland’s foreign minister has suggested that NATO states should consider imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect the alliance’s territory and people from Russian drones.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Around 2,000 soldiers will secure the site, and a no-fly zone over the Bürgenstock mountain will be imposed from June 18 to June 20 to ensure security, the Swiss government said.
    — Pamela Avila, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
  • Sikorski, for his part, has recently advocated for the implementation of a no-fly zone extending over Ukraine, a measure that would necessitate NATO directly shooting down Russian drones involved in the war.
    — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Western powers fear the Kremlin is increasingly testing NATO defenses, particularly with a series of recent drone incursions that prompted Poland to call for the military alliance to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
    — semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Western powers fear the Kremlin is increasingly testing NATO defenses, particularly with a series of recent drone incursions that prompted Poland to call for the military alliance to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
    — semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In its investigation, ProPublica found several airplanes began running low on fuel after the January 2025 Starship incident, with at least one declaring an emergency and crossing the no-fly zone to reach an airport.
    — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Damien Symon, an open-source intelligence analyst, said on the social media platform X that India had declared a no-fly zone over the Bay of Bengal for a likely missile test—conducted from a northeastern island—effective Wednesday through Thursday.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Amid the continuing fallout over Russia’s drone incursion into Poland last week, Poland’s foreign minister on Monday called on NATO countries to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect Europe from strikes.
    — Colin Meyn, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
  • While Chinese research vessels conduct missions across the Indian Ocean, India has declared a no-fly zone for a likely missile test in the Bay of Bengal off its eastern coast that extends over 1,000 miles from shore, effective December 1-4, according to Symon.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025

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