runway

[ˈrʌnweɪ]

Definition:
1. A narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc.
2. A strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land.

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Use 'runway' in a sentence:

1. The average international runway model has a body mass index ( BMI) under 16--low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization's standard.
2. The pilot taxied the plane to the end of the runway.
3. The runway looks very tiny.
4. The plane took off for LA, lost an engine as it climbed, and crashed just off the runway.
5. In one shot, standing on a runway in the dark, Chávez points to a building where he was imprisoned during a coup and where some of his men lost their lives.
6. I throttled back as we approached the runway.
7. The plane veered off the runway and careered through the perimeter fence.
8. The plane apparently overshot the runway after landing.
9. The plane roared down the runway for takeoff.
10. The situation rarely happens, unless you are near a runway.
11. The runway is clear – go ahead and land.
12. As if that were not enough, a Brazilian C-130 Hercules military transport plane has remained stranded near the runway of Chile's airbase here since it crash-landed in 2014.
13. The plane veered off the runway and crashed through the perimeter fence.
14. The runway had to be lengthened.
15. No one fainted at the sight of the aircraft being trafficked onto the runway.
16. The airport shuttle on the runway.
17. Rejuvenate this season's nude runway trends like modeling beauty.
18. Models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.
19. The plane is believed to have aquaplaned on the runway.
20. Captain Shelton guided his plane down the runway and took off.
21. There was a newly-built runway at the airport.
22. The plane skidded off the runway while taking off in a snow storm.
23. Just up the road, at Edwards Air Force Base, is the runway where nearly half of all shuttle flights touched down.
24. They blasted a huge crater in the runway.
25. The game involves setting flight paths to safely direct jumbo jets to the large runway, smaller prop planes to the airstrip, and helicopters to the helipad.
26. The plane circled twice, trying in vain to line up with the runway.
27. The plane took off for L.A., lost an engine as it climbed, and crashed just off the runway.
28. The plane managed to glide down to the runway.
29. The plane started taxiing down the runway.
30. You go on an airplane and then after the usual delays, the plane begins to accelerate down the runway.
31. The pilot guided the plane onto the runway.
32. The runway was partially submerged.
33. It was the world's second worst air disaster, a horrific re-run of the runway collision in 1977.
34. As the aeroplane went down the runway the wing touched a pile of rubble.
35. The crew finally landed the plane on its belly on the soft part of the runway.
36. An aircraft overshot the runway and was severely damaged.
37. The aircraft overshot the runway.
38. Police have sealed off the runway and say it is unclear if it was an accident or an attempted robbery.
39. The new runway is a billion-dollar boondoggle.
40. As if that were not enough, a Brazilian C-130 Hercules military transport plane has remained stranded near the runway of Chile's air base here since it crash-landed in 2014.
41. The jet began to turn off the main runway.
42. The runway is simply a strip of grass.
43. The plane coasted down the runway.
44. Our plane has lifted off the runway and is now airborne.
45. The wheels of the aircraft kissed the runway.
46. The runway of this airport is undergoing expansion to accommodate large planes.
47. The planes landed on adjacent runways.
48. The runway is clear — go ahead and land.