How to Use crash-land in a Sentence

crash-land

verb
  • Someone says more than 16 planes have crash-landed in the past few years.
    — Janine Di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026
  • 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, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Some ibises crash-landed, while a couple of others flew off and went missing for hours.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Shortly after, the plane issued a mayday alert and crash-landed.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 30 Dec. 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
  • Enter a rambunctious alien, who crash-lands on Earth just when Lilo needs him the most.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Then, things get bumpy at Prodigy City when a huge spaceship crash-lands right in the middle of it.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 5 June 2025
  • 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
  • Sure enough, mid-flight, a hole is blown in the fuselage, and Zsa-zsa, taking the controls, crash-lands the plane.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
  • And earlier this month, as part of that tour, Stitch crash-landed on Broadway.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Both helicopters crash-landed on the ground, and one was engulfed in flames, police wrote on Facebook.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
  • There are also boulder-size chunks of moon rocks and meteorites that crash-landed on Earth that children can touch and smell.
    — John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
  • From the big screen to the halls of Congress, aliens have crash-landed at the center of public conversation.
    — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
  • Penn State is in crash-landing mode on Wednesday after a dismal early signing day.
    — Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • When the alien craft crash-landed, Wendy volunteered to retrieve the cargo, only to find carnage within.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2025
  • The people of Kamigawa must unite to stop the monsters of Ikoria that have crash-landed, threatening their home.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 17 July 2026
  • Also in February, a Delta jet crash-landed in Toronto and flipped upside down.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Okarun and Jiji — ejected from the Buddha robot — crash-land in a nearby rice field.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The first film follows an adorable blue extraterrestrial creature who crash-lands in Hawaii and gets adopted by a young girl and her older sister.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The action thriller stars Gerard Butler and Mike Colter as a commercial pilot and a fugitive who crash-land in a war zone.
    — EW.com, 13 June 2025
  • But that seems reasonable for a chip maker that everyone knows from smartphones but seems to have crash-landed from another planet into the laptop market in just the past year.
    — Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In August, a plane that departed from North Perry crash-landed in the Everglades.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • 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

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