Example Sentences

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When Arco crash-lands into it, however, having borrowed a cape and a diamond, Iris’s focus turns to helping him find his way home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The winds get stronger and the vampire drone crash-lands.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

Charlton Heston stars as the captain of a four-person space crew that crash-lands on a planet that feels unfamiliar, where talking apes rule and humans, such as they are, have been enslaved.

From New York Times • May 15, 2024

Forty-five years later another alien from Newton's home planet crash-lands on Earth, this time in New Mexico.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2022

Planet of the Apes Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in the classic 1968 sci-fi fable about an astronaut who crash-lands on a strange world where apes rule and humans are hunted.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2019