Example sentences for: runway

How can you use “runway” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An AP story on the USAT front and inside the WP reports that the FAA is warning pilots not to take Viagra within six hours of flying, because the color discrimination problems sometimes associated with the drug could make it hard to interpret cockpit gauges and runway lights.

  • Taxiing from the gate to the runway normally took about 15 minutes.

  • A nerve-racking USAT "Cover Story" says that airports nationwide, in an effort to accommodate more traffic and increase runway efficiency, are practicing "the simultaneous use of intersecting runways."

  • Extra daring nakedness has gone back to being the domain of professionals, the models who pose for nude photos or who wear runway couture that bares the breasts, buttocks, and navel under transparent spangled veiling meant for ballrooms, not the beach.

  • The air traffic controller mistakenly took this statement to mean that the plane was at the take-off point, waiting for further instructions, and so did not warn the pilot that another plane, a Pan Am 747 that was invisible in the thick fog, was already on the runway.


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