runway

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.

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.