How to Use airspace in a Sentence

airspace

noun
Definition of airspacenext
  • The airspace above New York City is among the busiest in the world.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The city owns the upper levels of the parking garage and the airspace.
    — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 16 June 2024
  • The ash plume forced the closure of most of Europe’s airspace for the better part of a week.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Air rights include the right to build in the airspace above a property.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • During a launch, the FAA needs to close hundreds of miles of airspace.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 May 2022
  • The airspace leases have brought in more than $170 million over the past five years.
    — Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The missiles had to pass through Iraq’s airspace to reach Israel.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Ukrainian airspace has been closed since early in the war.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Having to avoid Russian airspace adds time and costs to flights.
    — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Since the full-scale invasion, airspace over Ukraine is closed.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024
  • In the wake of the confrontation, Pakistan closes its airspace.
    — CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The airspace was charged with a festival mix of mariachi music and Mac Dre.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 13 Aug. 2024
  • None of the planes breached U.S. airspace and a Pentagon spokesperson said Tuesday there was no cause for alarm.
    — Mark Thiessen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The New York City area, with three major airports, is the most congested airspace in the United states.
    — CNN, 2 June 2022
  • The Lebanese Minister of Transportation then told the plane not to enter Lebanese airspace.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The airspace leases have brought in more than $170 million for public transportation over the past five years.
    — Christopher Weber, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Coup leaders in Niger announced a closure of its airspace, causing flights to reroute around the country.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
  • It’s the only airspace in the country where the Air Force can train fighter pilots to shoot down fake fighter jets in the sky and from the ground with rockets.
    — Lucas Thompson, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The airspace was reopened once the object was found to be harmless, said Daniel Voda, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Dominican officials also closed the airspace to flights to and from Haiti.
    — Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
  • So the Ukrainians are managing to control their airspace.
    — CBS News, 8 May 2022
  • This technology is pushing the limits of what drones can do in British airspace.
    — Wired, 6 July 2022
  • There were two layers of glass, separated by some airspace and backed by a black sheet of metal.
    — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
  • These airspace rivers vary in size and strength, and like hurricanes, are sorted in categories based on the severity of the storm.
    — Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Niger's coup leaders shut the country's airspace, citing the military threat.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Areas under and next to the freeway are considered airspace.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The White House may have dashed our hopes this time, but who knows what might be behind the next high-altitude object that enters U.S. airspace.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The balloon first passed through American airspace in Alaska north of the Aleutian Islands.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
  • Russia responded in kind by closing its airspace, forcing many European carriers to fly longer routes to reach Asia.
    — Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The insulated airspace that maintains the temperature of your hot or cold liquids gets compromised and loses efficiency.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024

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