land on
verb- To land atop of; to fall on the surface of. · In 1969, Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon.· I was shoved down and my backpack landed on the pavement.
- To reach a common conclusion or agreement, usually following a small period of disagreement. · I wanted pepperoni pizza, but my friend was a vegetarian, so we landed on having cheese pizza.
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He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the rope and land on the bed.
Thus, at length, by one of the unexpected strokes of fortune which sometimes befall those who have for a long time been the victims of an evil destiny, Dantès was about to secure the opportunity he wished for, by simple and natural means, and land on the island without incurring any suspicion.
As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio.
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