LANDING in a Sentence

Learn LANDING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
246 example sentences for LANDING, such as:
1. The plane made a safe landing.
2. On the landing she paused to look about her.
3. The pilot had to make an emergency landing in a field.
4. The plane apparently overshot the runway after landing.
5. The plane hovered about for several turns before landing.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LANDING
landing
 n.  an intermediate platform in a staircase
 n.  structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
Classic Sentence: (201 in 14 pages)
1  The doors of the two bedrooms faced each other across the narrow upper landing, and to-night it was peculiarly repugnant to him that Mattie should see him follow Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  As he lay there he could hear Mattie moving about in her room, and her candle, sending its small ray across the landing, drew a scarcely perceptible line of light under his door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  The door of Mattie's room was shut, and he wavered a moment on the landing.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  Scarlett stood on the landing and peered cautiously over the banisters into the hall below.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  From the window on the landing, she could see the group of men sitting under the arbor, drinking from tall glasses, and she knew they would remain there until late afternoon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  She went up the stairs so swiftly that when she reached the landing, she thought she was going to faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  As she reached the landing, the whole lower floor leaped up at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  As she climbed the stairs, the faint rumbling of thunder began and, standing on the well-remembered landing, she thought how like the siege cannon it sounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  She stood on the landing, leaning against the banisters and wondered if he would kiss her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
10  He stood beside her on the landing, his eyes appraising her carelessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
11  On the landing she paused to look about her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
12  The stairs were still carpetless, and on the way up to her room she was arrested on the landing by an encroaching tide of soapsuds.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  In her stuffy room at the hotel to which she had gone on landing, Lily Bart that evening reviewed her situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
14  Running to a little closet under the landing of the stairs, she glanced in, and returning, told me that Queequeg's harpoon was missing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
15  We arrived at Baltimore early on Sunday morning, landing at Smith's Wharf, not far from Bowley's Wharf.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  The aftermath of the Apollo I fire had left many questioning the basic concept of an attempted Moon landing.
2  We put our watches forward eight hours before landing in Tokyo.
3  The pilot had to make an emergency landing in a field.
4  There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats.
5  I hope you don't mind me landing you with the children at such short notice.
6  He brought the aircraft's nose up and made a perfect landing.
7  The plane apparently overshot the runway after landing.
8  The plane made a safe landing.
9  The plane hovered about for several turns before landing.
10  The moon landing inaugurated a new era in space exploration.
11  The passengers were told to brace themselves for a crash landing.
12  He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image.
13  A landing platform attached to a wharf and floating on the water.
14  I hired a car the day after landing and bought a comprehensive book of maps, which is most helpful on the cross country.
15  Similar restrictions will apply to people coming through Christmas Island and other popular landing places off the north-west coast.