How to Use crash-land in a Sentence

crash-land

verb
  • But not before one carload of Nazis flies off the bridge and crash-lands in front of them.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In the first, the girls crash-land in a vast wilderness on their way to a soccer tournament.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But the Louvre appears, at first glance, to be a flying saucer that has crash-landed on the beach.
    — John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Society of the Snow aims to retell the story of the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
  • Touch down wrong, and the spacecraft may have faced a fate like Hayabusa, which crash-landed on its asteroid.
    — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Things go from routine to catastrophic when the team’s helicopter gets blown off course in a freak storm and crash-lands in the DPRK.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Some ibises crash-landed, while a couple of others flew off and went missing for hours.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The electric vehicle dropped some 300 feet before crash-landing just feet from the waves of the Pacific Ocean.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Shortly after, the plane issued a mayday alert and crash-landed.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Days later, a Jeju Air flight crash-landed in South Korea.
    — Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The ship carrying Ripley and her crew at the end of Aliens crash-lands on the prison planet Fiorina 161, with Ripley as the sole survivor.
    — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Failure is an option In the early days of the 20th century space race, far more spacecraft crash-landed on the moon than safely touched down.
    — Kristin Fisher, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • After she’s captured by Skrulls who try to probe her memories, Vers crash-lands in 1995 Los Angeles.
    — Jacqueline Weiss, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • After she’s captured by Skrulls who try to probe her memories, Vers crash-lands in 1995 Los Angeles.
    — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Authorities were working on Monday to confirm the identities of more than three dozen of the 179 people who were killed when the plane crash-landed.
    — Joohee Cho, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • When Ripley crash-lands on the planetoid along with one xenomorph running loose and a another one growing inside her, the monks regard her as a kind of witch.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Plane crash In 2016, a small plane towing a banner crash-landed on a Detroit residential street.
    — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2024
  • But when Chief, the ornery stray, gets overruled into helping his pack assist a boy who’s crash-landed on their trash island, Cranston really nails it.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
  • But the plane veered hundreds of miles off course after being diverted over the Caspian Sea towards Kazakhstan, and crash-landed near the city of Aktau, killing at least 38 of the 67 people on board.
    — Harriet Marsden, theweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • One day, a government agent named Aster (Lena Headey) crash-lands nearby, claiming she’s been sent to study strange rocks recently discovered in the area.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The pilot of a single-engine plane crash-landed in a Compton neighborhood near the airport Wednesday morning.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The film is the latest cinematic retelling of the miraculous story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes in 1972, with the survivors being forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Eleven years later, the Chandrayaan-2 successfully entered lunar orbit but its rover crash-landed on the moon’s surface.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
  • One of the bombs crash-landed, sustaining critical damage.
    — Rebecca Messina, theweek, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Canada: The authorities are investigating what caused a plane to crash-land and flip over on the runway in Toronto yesterday.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • As on most other rocky planets, the water on Mercury probably came from asteroids that crash-landed onto the surface.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Their quiet lives change when an alien spaceship crash-lands in Milton’s backyard, which is conveniently remote and protected from nosy neighbors by a tall fence.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • During the ordeal, Kennedy and Christina were nearly pushed by strong currents into a boulder, crash-landed on a beach and at several points were plunged underwater.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • Unlike the surviving family in the film, McNamara crash-lands.
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Minutes before the plane crash-landed, the Muan International Airport control tower issued a bird strike warning to the flight, a not-uncommon warning due to duck and goose habitats near the airport.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024

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