Sentence examples for bumped down on from inspiring English sources

Whether it was the g-force of the ascent or the noise of the plane (we had to wear headsets), it put our three-year-old daughter instantly to sleep until we bumped down on the grass at Claris airport.

After first completing a fast fly-over to confirm that no grizzly bears or wolves were on the runway, we bumped down on the plane's big, hearty tundra tires, making a slightly harrowing – if entirely routine – bush landing on the 250m landing strip.

Few of the Okavango's more than 60 safari camps are connected by road, and access is provided by a handful of small Cessna airlines, which shuttle visitors from camp to camp, bumping down on grass or dirt landing strips and tarrying only long enough to drop one load of guests and pick up another.

Today aircraft sweep in every day over the Bismarck Sea, crossing 370km of open water from the Papua New Guinea mainland to bump down on a strip carved into the jungle by Japanese soldiers 72 years ago.

An hour later we were bumping down on a dirt-strip that doubles as a gateway to the reserve and a social hotspot for colourfully-dressed Masai warriors.

Heaven had bumped down to earth on the ragged outskirts of London.

Pedrosa was only fifth on the grid but made a trademark start to lead into turn one as Stoner was bumped down to fifth from pole position.

The film has some fun with a 1964 scene in which Brown is bumped down the bill on a TV show to make way for a new band called the Rolling Stones.

As Mr. Gilani bumped down a country lane on the way to that rally, he pointed to a line of female faces peeking over a wall: all beneficiaries of a government aid plan he helped establish that pays $10 a month to poor women, he said.

In the first, in July 2009, bullets and mortars had rained down on his convoy of black-windowed 4x4s as they bumped down the highway near Puerto Gaitán.

It brings us bumping down to earth.