Sentence examples for airstrip right from inspiring English sources
The helicopter rose slowly from the airstrip right after the helicopter in front of it had risen.
You simply drive to the edge of the local airstrip, turn left, fork right, head past the one building on the horizon – a lonely police checkpoint – and that's it.
After idling his engine for three minutes on the airstrip, our pilot raised his right hand in the air, forming a circle with the forefinger and thumb, to show that he hoped everything would proceed perfectly from then on.
In 1984, Kenyan security forces imprisoned and then killed thousands of ethnic Somali men at a remote airstrip, according to Kenyan human rights groups.
Such breakfast runs are popular among residents of the country's more than 500 residential air parks, tiny subdivisions where each home has its own hangar and residents can taxi their planes right onto an adjacent airstrip.
There were roads, and cars (gas was eight dollars a gallon), and there was a bar, right next to the airstrip, where I saw a snowmobiler depart for Takotna, armed with eighteen beers, a bottle of rum, and a bottle of Irish whiskey.
We flew into the rugged airstrip of Lukla, a white-knuckle experience in its own right.
Debarking at the tiny airstrip on Cay Caulker, I felt a tickle on my right ankle and remembered the guidebook warnings about sand flies, which can be fierce if the brisk trade winds die down.
Once at the company airstrip we're served piping-hot tea in fine-bone china right on the tarmac.
We passed a small airstrip.
