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Example sentences for "tarmac"

Lexicographically close words:
tariff; tariffs; tarka; tarlatan; tarletan; tarn; tarnal; tarnation; tarnel; tarnish
  1. Land's End at the southwest tip of England, and went trundling over to the tarmac line and the waiting mechanics.

  2. He gripped the straps of the G-seat and watched the video feed from the landing-gear cameras, which showed the tarmac flashing by in a stream of gray.

  3. Then he cut back to the infrared cameras and glanced over the tarmac stretching out in front of him.

  4. They passed through the outer door and onto the tarmac as an ensemble, Ramirez holding Mannheim by the arm and guiding him.

  5. Peretz was slower, caught standing on the foggy tarmac next to the bottom step.

  6. He went out and took the slide-stair down to the tarmac where squad ship 390 waited in standard police readiness.

  7. Tell Willis I'll be on the tarmac in five minutes.

  8. On the tarmac of Eighty-Four's field three powerful Mark 5 Spitfires were being warmed up and mothered by mechanics as though they were infant babes in arms.

  9. Back down on the tarmac Squadron Leader Markham stood like a carved statue, his eyes still turned upward toward the half night, half dawn sky.

  10. When you taxied directly to the tarmac in front of the Base office, you were somebody important.

  11. He got the flash to taxi in and sent the Vultee trundling along and down the cross runway toward the seemingly mile-long tarmac lined in back by an equally long row of massive hangars.

  12. He strode across the tarmac and passed through the airlock and hailed the young men.

  13. At the end of their journey, the Star Ranger touched down gently on the tarmac at Amundsen Base, near the south pole of the Moon on the edge of the largest city in the Earth-Moon system-Amundsen City, with over eight million inhabitants.

  14. Tarmac The line of departure on the field.

  15. The airplanes had either left the tarmac or had been wrapped in the gas-impregnated cloth, for both they and the aviators had vanished.

  16. Dick banked, turned, leaned forward and shouted to Luke Evans, and, when the old man turned his head, indicated to him to sweep the tarmac with his ray.

  17. Straight out toward the side of the tarmac it moved jerked downward diagonally, until it rested only a few feet above the ground.

  18. In his car, which conveyed them from the tarmac to the Embassy, she received all his overtures in the same silence.

  19. On this tarmac was a flight of shining airplanes, ready to take off.

  20. A moon-rocket, landing at its space-port on Earth, heated the tarmac to red-hotness in the process of landing.

  21. There was only a dim redness where the space-port tarmac had been made incandescent for a little while.

  22. No British soldier appeared, however, and hope zoomed in Dave as he saw the tarmac guards start running in the direction of the shouts, the shots, and the flames.

  23. And as luck would have it they had spotted the six Bristol "Taurus" powered Fairey "Albacores" on the tarmac but a few seconds after they had reached the place where they now hugged the ground.

  24. His head snapped back, his feet left the ground, and he did a beautiful backward somersault to crash down on the tarmac in a heap.

  25. Mechanics were climbing down out of cockpits and walking along down the tarmac in groups.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarmac" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.