Sentence examples for off the airstrip from inspiring English sources

Landing one sunny day in St . Louis Mr. Kerry wandered off the airstrip to stroll through a grass patch, leaving his security detail trying to keep him in sight while scores of staff members, supporters, police officers and journalists waited without explanation for an hour.

It was given a hard time by birds known as sooty terns or wideawakes, which nest by the million on the island and won't move off the airstrip.

The soldiers sat waiting in darkness off to the side of the airstrip.

It would see the northern runway doubled in length west to allow simultaneous landings on the bit nearest London, while planes are taking off from the Windsor end of the airstrip.

Initial construction of the airstrip north of the town of Jackson was completed in the 1930s.

And then they're off, skidding past the airstrip, and out towards the lonely police checkpoint.

Jim and Penny head off to the airstrip on fire duty.

Herring backed a plan to take American engineers off working on the airstrips in order to develop the port by building a causeway to Tatana Island, the successful completion of which doubled the port's capacity and was the logistical turning point of the campaign.

The loss of the outpost "Beatrice" and now "Gabrielle", allowed almost pin point artillery to be rained down for the rest of the battle and cut off any air resupply using the airstrip, and this dictated the resulting events.

The idea is that a whole bunch of Marines would hop some planes to the area, climb in their tanks or whatever as they leave the airstrip, and then head off to battle.

This time Deeds is the typically sweet Sandleresque goofball, generous and humble, loved by all to the point that the entire town shows up at the airstrip to see him off to New York.