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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "runway" in a sentence

    runway example sentences

    runway


    1. A jetliner TOUCHES DOWN on the runway


    2. Up ahead they could see a long runway coming into view


    3. The craft came down and bounced once at the outer edge of the runway and then all of a sudden they were thrown forward as the tail hook was grabbed and the craft slowed


    4. “A Boeing 777 is a huge aeroplane and needs a least 1,500 – 2,000 metres of runway to land


    5. “We need enough fuel to reach the runway


    6. My teacher said that he ran out of runway a couple of times and took off on the sand


    7. Bruce took the ILS unit to the end of the north-south runway


    8. The tent had blown down the runway and seven of the empty fuel drums were missing


    9. “The ILS is at east end of east-west runway


    10. “Scheisse! The ILS is on the other runway!” Bruce threw the statement at Carlos and Nelson

    11. “Get the ILS to the east end of the east-west runway NOW!”


    12. A Boeing 777 is not easy to hide and requires a long runway to land, so I searched for abandoned runways within the fuel range of MH370


    13. There was a runway that filled the center of the room with a small stage at the front


    14. As the model glided across the runway to the exit,


    15. Finding an open seat by the window facing the runway and near to his plane, I ordered a glass of juice and waited, watching his plane fixedly hoping to get a last glimpse of him


    16. The plane disappeared down the runway


    17. The plane accelerated down the runway and I felt the old terror creeping over me again


    18. There’s no sense driving it up to the edge of the runway at full throttle


    19. He used only a short part of the runway


    20. It was with a good warm feeling; that I centred her up on the end of our runway area

    21. Leaving the crowds behind, the four men walked across the runway towards their aircraft that was preparing to take off


    22. He counted as each slid past, the runway numbers all painted on in the ubiquitous alien script


    23. They sat on the end of the runway


    24. During a low pass at three hundred metres, an altitude which barely registered on the instruments, he dropped a series of flares a kilometre from his improvised runway and set a few small, smoky grass fires to indicate wind direction


    25. As the San Jose runway came into sight and she anticipated their first moment, the words ‘utmost priority’ did begin to describe her desire for him


    26. He studied them curiously, considering them to be the flashing lights of an airplane on the runway of Limon’s Airport


    27. The plane began to move towards the runway


    28. That day, a ribbon was cut at the end of the runway, dropping the signal for


    29. rocked the runway and they tried to steady themselves


    30. cracking sound and the runway in front of them tore open

    31. and the chopper lurched to the side, the rotors barely missing the runway


    32. Suddenly, the chopper lifted and the runway fell away


    33. The chopper came over the east part of the runway and spluttered again


    34. When the canopy finally closed, we taxied toward the runway and


    35. which was only 400 yards off the main runway of San Antonio


    36. There, parked on the wide runway, was one of the


    37. runways but this runway was new


    38. runway to safely land the shuttle had to be more than a mile long


    39. A heavy staircase was rolled across the runway and


    40. I told her he had been caught red handed flying the single-engine plane from which bales of marijuana were tossed while it taxied on the Winslow runway and retrieved by Jenkins’ henchmen to his just purchased station wagon before the plane came to a stop

    41. At the Winslow airport, the bales of MJ that were tossed out along the runway as he taxied to the terminal were picked up and placed into a mint new Dodge station wagon just purchased on credit from his pal, the Mesa owner of Jack Ross Dodge


    42. The turning point in my career at ACC should have been the conversation he and I had on an airport runway at the Kingman airport after a hearing there


    43. Towards the end of my tenure, after the airport runway conversation with Garfield in Kingman, Frank set up a lunch meeting at a Mexican restaurant on far South Central Avenue where Nelson lived


    44. screamed to a stop on the runway in Moscow


    45. making its way to the runway


    46. At the end of the third day, the last of the bombers left the runway and the reverberating dissonance lost itself among the fjords


    47. I must tell you that I watched that plane touch down on the runway with such sadness


    48. Parker had never felt so excited as he obeyed Travers's instructions in the pattern and down to five feet above the concrete surface of Runway 27 at Bien Hoa Air Base


    49. Land and get off the runway is what they told Copperhead 03


    50. Parker followed through as Travers landed the fanged-mouth O-1E in a perfect three-point attitude and turned down a taxiway within the first two hundred feet from the approach end of the runway














































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    Synonyms for "runway"

    runway rail rails track

    "runway" definitions

    a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll


    a chute down which logs can slide


    a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc.


    a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land