runway

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Recent Examples of runway Jean-Michel Basquiat painted jumpsuits and sweatshirts for Patricia Field and walked the runway for Comme des Garçons. Natasha Degen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024 The brand, which held a runway show during New York Fashion Week in September, uses cotton, denim, linen and silk in its collections and is looking to increase its natural fibers to 70 percent to 80 percent for its Fall/Winter 2025 offering. Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 31 Oct. 2024 Ugo Monye brought in two surprises; Davido walking down the runway and fellow designer Sandrah Tubobereni who also appeared as a model in menswear pieces. Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 31 Oct. 2024 Below, eight lacy dress and slip skirt outfits that not only have the runway seal-of-approval, but the fashion-girl one, too. Laura Jackson, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for runway 
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Noun
  • In a letter distributed by his lawyer, Zambada said his godson’s goons kidnapped him at a resort in suburban Culiacán, tied him up, bundled him into the bed of a pickup, drove him to an airstrip and forced him on the plane.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • How to Get There: Sansa Airlines has daily 50-minute flights from San José to Puerto Jiménez airstrip (PJM).
    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • People pass by on the street as Hurricane Rafael passes by Havana, Cuba, on Wednesday.
    Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Downtown, the nearly identical tents of the Harris/Walz and Trump/Vance campaigns stood separated by several hundred feet on one of the main streets, but almost no one collected posters or bumper stickers from either forlorn camp on a balmy but heavily overcast day.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Van Zandt purchased 278 acres of cotton fields east of 24th Street and south of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and transformed them into a landing field.
    Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024
  • And no ones sees that landing field more clearly than Michael O’Leary, Boeing’s disappointed customer, but still true believer.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • These plans outline how a forest will be managed — like logging parameters, species protections, restoration projects and road maintenance.
    April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Smith also did not dress for road games last month against the Winnipeg Jets, Los Angeles Kings, and the Utah Hockey Club.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Boom Supersonic Lower speeds means the Overture can function over land without sonic booms and will be able to land on the same runways typical commercial aircraft like the Boeing 737 or Airbus A380 use, not needing the nearly 10,000-ft (3,048-m) landing strips that the Concorde required.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Swooping around the harbor and nose-diving down to one of the world’s shortest landing strips, the 2,100-foot runway is bookended by a hill on one side, the bay on the other—and turboprop planes are the only way in.
    Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • New high-capacity roadways traversed forests and farmland, often terminating at what was then the urban edge.
    David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
  • But for the film, Caldwell and Honnold spent 38 days biking 2,320 miles from his home in Estes Park, Colorado, to the tiny town of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, where the roadway ends.
    Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • State of play: As Trump voted at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreational Center, snipers stood guard from a nearby rooftop and dozens of police vehicles blocked a lane of traffic.
    Axios Local, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The accident temporarily closed both northbound and southbound lanes of Skyline Blvd.
    John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Roman Road, in London’s East End, is a busy thoroughfare just south of Victoria Park.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The next one on the boards is the 15,000 square foot dining and entertainment venue Oro and Elixir opening on main thoroughfare Lincoln Road this fall.
    Laurie Werner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Runway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/runway. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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