landing - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • d-day: Special armored vehicles were therefore developed to support the infantrymen landing on D-Day.

Converse of object

  • commemorate: Visible across the bay is Point Loma where a statue of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo commemorates the landing of the first European in 1542.

Adjective modifier

  • d-day: Its historical claim to fame is being involved in the D-Day landings of American troops on to the Normandy beaches in 1944.
  • galleried: From the hall, oak stairs lead up to the galleried landing from which there are fabulous views over the countryside.
  • amphibious: The operation included amphibious landings and troops parachuting in behind Japanese lines.
  • allied: Meanwhile, six months passed between Laval's return to power and the Allied landings in North Africa.
  • lunar: Who's made a lunar landing on the level?
  • soft: This appeared to be the perfect soft landing: prices did not drop.

Modifies a noun

  • craft: Relief aboard a tank landing craft followed by news of my brother killed in Burma end of August.
  • gear: Two steel tube ribs at each end of spar carry main power unit and landing gear pick up points.
  • strip: Then he leaped into the air and flew toward the landing strip.
  • net: Do not try to use a landing net handle or a piece of wood.
  • jetty: The wide dinghy jetty and the central landing jetty provide easy launching at all states of the tide.
  • pad: Posted by Blue Witch on 13 September, 2004 at 12:25 PM An alien landing pad!

Noun used with modifier

  • moon: The Apollo moon landing is topping many of these lists.
  • d-day: Next on the journey we drove through the coastal roads of Normandy, where many years ago the famous D-Day landings commenced.
  • helicopter: Nadia's helicopter landing, for example, is a shot lifted from " Arrival " .
  • swoop: Judging the height to dive a canopy into a swoop landing is not easy.
  • ferry: For the next seven years Willie waited faithfully at the ferry landing for his owner to return.
  • emergency: A US passenger flight from Heathrow to JFK made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport yesterday.

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