How to Use air base in a Sentence

air base

noun
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  • The crash took place on March 10 at an air base near Vasilkov, Ukraine.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The flight brought the evacuees to a military air base in Abu Dhabi.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The first stop for Cohen and his colleagues was the Hatzor air base.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In the first days of 2020, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at an Iraqi air base housing U.S. troops.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In another part of Iraq, U.S. forces at the al-Harir air base destroyed a drone.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Outside the air base today, the burn pit has been planted over with green grass, but the fields around it look dead.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
  • My editor was there at the air base with us for that reason.
    — Vulture, 2 June 2022
  • Bolsonaro took off from Brasília’s air base in a Brazilian Air Force plane.
    — Camilo Rocha, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The United States operates a key air base in the country.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The plane took off and flew four hours to Johnson Island, a one-strip air base about 900 miles southwest of Hawaii.
    — Michael E. Ruane Washington Post, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Subi Reef, the site of another air base, is only 976 acres.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Planes, hangars and housing at the air base suffered heavy damage.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Except that the whole place was built in the early 2000s on land razed by Mussolini to build an air base.
    — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • As the war churned on, the small atoll became a major U.S. air base, and some field cemeteries were paved over.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2022
  • In the strike on the Russian air base, Ukrainian forces destroyed eight fighter jets.
    — Eric Schmitt, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Many of the flights landed at Egypt’s Sidi Barrani air base, near the Libyan border.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The missing plane was part of a four plane training flight that took off from Misawa air base on the evening of April 9th.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2019
  • Bucha was a target from the start of the war, because of the Hostomel military air base, less than three miles from my house.
    — Elena Rubashevska, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Nelly fell in love with a young Austrian Nazi and had worked for a year on a German air base.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Instead of heading back, Rooster goes out to find Maverick alive and the pair steal an F-14 from the air base.
    — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The Russian air force has deployed Backfire bombers to its air base in Syria.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • The Engels air base, a hub for Russia’s fleet of strategic bombers, has been used to launch air raids and missile strikes on Ukraine.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The al-Assad air base, which houses US troops, is one of the largest and oldest military bases in Iraq.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 8 Jan. 2020
  • By 2018, the next big project at Lop Nur was the rapid expansion of a giant air base whose main runway was three miles long.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Just over a week ago, explosions rocked the Russians’ Saki air base on Crimea and destroyed planes on the ground.
    — Paul Byrne, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Just over a week ago, explosions rocked the Russians' Saki air base on Crimea and destroyed planes on the ground.
    — Paul Byrne, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The next shot of the holding stations at an air base is a real-world shot of Andersen Air Base on the island of Guam.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Yet none of this advice stopped the president from abandoning the Bagram air base.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
  • That area includes Great Park, a Marine air base that when retired left 4,700 acres empty.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • She was born on a US air base in Germany where her father was stationed, and shortly after that went to live in Taiwan where her mum is from.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2024

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