Example sentences for: tarmac

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

  • Freeport-Lucaya may be a modern town of concrete and tarmac, but within the city limits are two natural areas that could be a million miles away from the bustle of the shops and large hotels.

  • The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times lead with India's decision to negotiate with the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight, still on the tarmac in southern Afghanistan.

  • But matters get more complicated when British lexicographers assume that American English pavement means the surface of a road if it has been specially put there, esp. if made from concrete or tarmac.

  • M.'s luggage, , was left sitting for an hour in the rain--on the tarmac.

  • In October 1977, a West German special force dealt similarly with a Lufthansa plane sitting on a tarmac in Mogadishu: every terrorist was killed, and every hostage brought back safely.


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