How to Use landing in a Sentence
landing
noun
- The plane made a smooth landing.
- We stopped to rest at the first floor landing.
- I waited at the landing for the ferry.
- Our plane was cleared for landing.
- Landing in high winds can be dangerous.
- The helicopter had to make an emergency landing.
- The pilot was practicing takeoffs and landings.
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China, India and the U.S. have all achieved landing on the Moon in the 2020s.
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Issam Mudawar,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2023
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The teens pulled the girl up a set of stairs to the building’s roof landing and raped her.
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Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2024
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The half bath is between the first and second floor on the landing.
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Joanne Kempinger Demski,
Journal Sentinel,
4 May 2023
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Soon enough, the film flashes forward to the summer of 1969, around the time of the moon landing.
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Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
29 June 2023
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SpaceX launched what could very well be the first private landing on the Moon.
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Morgan Haefner,
Quartz,
16 Feb. 2024
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Plus, the plush wool Berber carpet is a soft landing spot for bare feet.
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Katherine Owen,
Southern Living,
2 Aug. 2023
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The fire was still burning about two hours after the landing.
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Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
2 Jan. 2024
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There is a cantilevered landing that juts out from the studio, bridging it to the main house.
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Kimberley Mok,
Treehugger,
30 June 2023
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For that, add a second ladder, perhaps a short stepstool, at the top of the stairs or on the landing.
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Jeanne Huber,
Washington Post,
16 June 2023
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There’s a sleek vintage blue Cadillac parked on the front landing.
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Leigh-Ann Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2023
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Sawyer made a crash landing on the beach when his small aircraft ran out of gas while on a whale watching tour.
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Lori Tobias | ,
oregonlive,
8 July 2023
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Schwartz asked staff and friends what their favorite things about Milwaukee were and added it to the landing page for the IPA.
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Jordyn Noennig,
Journal Sentinel,
19 June 2024
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As for the lack of any Plan B, well, the Cougars couldn’t create an optimal landing spot out of thin air.
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Jon Wilner | ,
oregonlive,
12 Aug. 2023
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The inflatable is designed to sit on the side of the pool with its landing extension in the water.
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Jayla Andrulonis,
Parents,
18 June 2023
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The trip to earth orbit is quick, and, in that case, the landing occurred just 8.5 minutes after the takeoff.
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Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2024
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There are four on the coffee table, some scattered on the floor in the living room, and then the rest are in her bedroom and on the landing.
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Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
23 Oct. 2024
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The 206 passed overhead and saw we were forced to make an emergency landing.
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Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
11 Sep. 2024
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If the landings succeed, the first crewed missions would take place two years later.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Oct. 2024
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Roberts might as well ask why Buzz Aldrin doesn’t engage with people who think the Moon landing was faked.
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Matt Ford,
The New Republic,
30 June 2023
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Many on Wall Street were bracing themselves for a hard landing at the start of the year, a downside which never came to fruition.
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Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
14 Nov. 2023
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The performers, lion dancers with the Leung’s White Crane troupe, had stuck the landing, yet again.
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Danielle Echeverria,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 May 2023
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All signs point toward a soft landing for the economy in the offing.
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Philip Elliott,
TIME,
30 Oct. 2024
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Risdon Beazley vessels helped to keep the D Day landing beaches clear, and the firm went on to become the largest salvage company in the world.
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Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2024
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