How to Use tarmac in a Sentence

tarmac

noun
  • How long can an airline keep you on a tarmac?
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The plane drops toward a short tongue of tarmac.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Trump climbed the stairs to a platform and waved to a tarmac filled with red.
    — Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2020
  • First, the stowaway takes to the runway, with the lights along the tarmac.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • And waiting on the tarmac when the plane landed were the ones that knew him back then.
    — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The white car will be set up for desert events, with the red one optimized for tarmac.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2021
  • There were reports that some planes sat on the tarmac for more than six hours waiting to move.
    — Author: Faiz Siddiqui, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The video also shows the man chasing the airport ground crew on the tarmac.
    — Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The plane took off, with Stanikzai and his family left on the tarmac.
    — CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Passengers walked off the plane on the tarmac at the airport.
    — Kristen De Groot, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The road south from Khartoum was a black tarmac strip through flat scrubland.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • Some climbed aboard, clinging to the outside as the aircraft gained speed on the tarmac.
    — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Those aboard the flight deplaned on the tarmac with the help of airstairs and were bussed to the terminal.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 3 Oct. 2022
  • For five days, the FedEx plane sat on the tarmac in Shanghai.
    — USA Today, 11 Sep. 2020
  • My initial flight sat on the tarmac for over three hours and was unable to find crew to load the luggage on the plane.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
  • For that one, he was put on a cherry picker and raised 10 feet above the planes, parked on the tarmac.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Both planes spent days on the tarmac at Teterboro when not in flight, according to the logs.
    — Christopher Maag, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Meanwhile, four members of Lynch's staff were still in the van on the airport tarmac.
    — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 14 June 2018
  • His wife, Karen, accompanied him down the stairs to the tarmac.
    — Kate Morrissey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • From the tarmac, Griner spoke on the phone with Biden and wife, Cherelle Griner.
    — Ben Gittleson, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The airport was dealing with high winds of 40 miles an hour at the time of the landing and a snowy tarmac.
    — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The best of the triptych is certainly the two women cheesin' on the tarmac, though the ladies look great in all of them.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Teen Vogue, 19 Oct. 2017
  • On the tarmac at the Nashua Airport sat a dinky white plane with wings mounted over the fuselage.
    — Kurt G. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • But the trauma in season 1, the shooting on the tarmac, that was such a 180.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Some sections of the track, which will use existing streets, roads and sections of the air station tarmac, will be repaved.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Dad told Leadon that a guitar in that case could fall onto an airplane tarmac without a scratch.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Kurt's key takeaways Robots moving baggage on an airport tarmac may take a minute to get used to.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • Away from tarmac, the CX-5 is capable enough for light off-road duties.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Bongiovi was pictured walking on a tarmac toward a plane while carrying their baby girl in his right arm.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
  • This scene involves a woman briefly driving on an airport tarmac and kissing an actor goodbye.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Nov. 2025

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