had crash-landed
- past perfect of crash-land.
Example Sentences
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Upon arriving at his warehouse in the quaint Polish village of Komorniki, he discovered that a massive chunk of charred rocket debris had crash-landed on his property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
They found that a private aircraft had crash-landed, but there were no injuries and no significant damage to the aircraft, the statement said.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2017
Navy discovered a Japanese fighter plane that had crash-landed on Akutan, one of the Aleutian Islands, a discovery that would eventually help the Navy devise new ways of combating the Japanese in the Pacific theater.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2017
In the final scene, the spacecraft had crash-landed on a tropical island.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2013
Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a yawning ice bowl just ten miles from Switzerland's famous peak, the 13,670-foot Jungfrau.
From Time Magazine Archive
