touch down

1. Land on the ground, as in The spacecraft touched down on schedule. This idiom was first recorded in 1935.

Example Sentences

Zelensky touched down in Turkey on Wednesday morning for a trip that had seemed to raise the prospects of a revival in stalled diplomatic efforts to broker an end to Russia's invasion.

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With each beat of its wings, bolts of lightning touch down to the ocean.

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To retrieve the astronaut safely, we had to make sure that we understood the exact place and time that space capsule would touch down.

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Hansen, playing at fullback for the first time at Test level, touched down under the posts twice inside the first quarter of an hour.

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At first, he enlisted 100 pilots to help evaluate the quality of that data, since they were uniquely positioned to know precisely when flights pushed back from the gate and touched down.

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Related Words

• descend 
• disembark 
• get off 
• perch