crash-land
verb
crash-landed; crash-landing; crash-lands
: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft
: to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft
crash landing
noun
Examples of crash-land in a Sentence
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The Syfy series, introduced in 2019, casts Tudyk as the pizza-loving, profanity-spewing title character who crash-lands in rural America on a mission to destroy humanity.
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Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
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
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
Plane Jane is revealing Bob the Drag Queen's reaction to the season 16 queen crash-landing her gleeful RuPaul's Drag Race reign of mischief on Madonna's runway last month.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
Paying tribute to the former Sherman Army Airfield are artillery shells and artifacts from the aeronautical realm, including a plane’s entire back end that apparently crash-landed into the wall.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
That mission was a follow-up to Chandrayaan-2, which crash-landed in 2019.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 26 Feb. 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
Four people were killed and one was critically injured when a hot air balloon crash-landed in the desert in Eloy, Arizona, on Sunday morning, the Eloy Police Department said.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
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
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
Plane Jane is revealing Bob the Drag Queen's reaction to the season 16 queen crash-landing her gleeful RuPaul's Drag Race reign of mischief on Madonna's runway last month.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
Paying tribute to the former Sherman Army Airfield are artillery shells and artifacts from the aeronautical realm, including a plane’s entire back end that apparently crash-landed into the wall.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
That mission was a follow-up to Chandrayaan-2, which crash-landed in 2019.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 26 Feb. 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
Four people were killed and one was critically injured when a hot air balloon crash-landed in the desert in Eloy, Arizona, on Sunday morning, the Eloy Police Department said.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
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