Sentence examples for runway hit from inspiring English sources

Billowy trousers, many with drawstring waists, were a runway hit for spring -- for at least one plausible reason.

I later learned that my flight had tried to take off from the wrong runway, hit concrete barriers and crashed back on the runway.

On an overcast afternoon in Mexico City in October 1968, a skinny American long jumper named Bob Beamon took 19 strides down a runway, hit the takeoff board perfectly and lifted off at what seemed like an impossible trajectory.

It went off the runway, hit a concrete barrier and burst into flames, Andrianova said.

Publishing often has a single runway hit that swells its annual numbers; in recent years Harry Potter, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Da Vinci Code" have greatly improved sales.

A small jet carrying media mogul Lewis Katz and six others appeared to not make it off the ground as it tried to take off from a Massachusetts airport and instead veered off the runway, hit an antenna and a fence and crashed into a gully, investigators said Sunday.

A massive airplane being built by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen moved a step closer to flight last week, when it crept out of its hangar in Mojave, Calif., and practiced rolling down the runway, hitting a top speed of 46 mph.

Although these merchants' skills are at the heart of Forever 21's success in offering shoppers faithful adaptations of runway hits, the company declined to make them available for an interview.

And he confirmed that concrete blocks on the closed runway were hit by the plane.

John Wildey said he touched down with a "right bump" and described how he nearly veered off the runway and hit a wall.

On Feb. 25, a plane landing at Jackson Hole, Wyo., skidded past the end of a runway and hit a snow bank.