Sentence examples for a smooth landing from inspiring English sources

Decades before China overtook Japan, the country had started downsizing, preparing for a smooth landing.

He takes Luke aloft in a small airplane, then cuts the engine, leaving it to Luke to make a smooth landing.

"You can see a smooth landing at the Dubuque Regional Airport," the anchorman, Scott Sanborn, said in a slightly hushed tone.

When the chain proves too short for a smooth landing, "he spills out the dirt, then drops the chicken, who spreads it all around," Mr. Wright said.

The astronauts and their support team on the ground performed admirably under difficult conditions on an unusually busy and lengthy mission that ended with a smooth landing yesterday.

"In that sense," Mr. López Levy said, "he will face the challenge and opportunity to prepare a smooth landing for a new type of civil-military relationship in the future".

Though the Mission Control Center might have wished for a smoother landing site, the geologists were beside themselves with joy at the one the LM came down on.

During the jump, the spiders with the silk lines stayed airborne longer, decelerated more, and completed a smoother landing than those without silk lines, researchers report online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

How can you help this child glide in for a smoother landing?

This year's bumpy budget-making journey ended in a relatively smooth landing late last month with a record raise for U.S. biomedical science and increases for many other basic research budgets.

Sounding a conciliatory note, Robert B. Tierney, the commission chairman, said last week, "This seems to be a very smooth landing after what had been a sometimes bumpy ride".