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    Use "flight" in a sentence

    flight example sentences

    flight


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    flighting


    flights


    1. He was led up a seemingly endless flight of open backed stairs to a small office


    2. Once across that court, they went down a shallow flight of steps into the canal-front building


    3. He decided to open up the copy of Stranger in a Strange Land he had brought for the flight


    4. Archimedes had thus far calculated the precise movements of pigeons while mating, the precise outcomes of humans trying to mate, and the effect of pollen dust on bees' flight patterns


    5. have a flight in three hours to


    6. He led them up a flight of stairs to a large and softly lit bedroom, where


    7. Russ, John and Khalid are in flight


    8. The flight is a little bumpy and the bottles jingle as they pass through turbulence


    9. curiosity that brooked no flight or fancy


    10. Wait for the flight, not a problem

    11. That's what she told herself, but all throughout the flight she was worried


    12. Enough to put the notion into the head of a baggage handler that the brand new bright pink carry-on there, ostensibly marked for that very flight, was actually intended for a different airline entirely


    13. The computer showed it was booked for a flight to Miami in twenty minutes time


    14. The baggage handler hurried down the terminal hallway as fast as he could, so worried that the little carry-on would miss its flight and then be stranded there in Phoenix


    15. thought, as he ascended a flight of narrow, pinched steps


    16. The outer shell of this iron asteroid was only fourteen feet thick in spots, serving as shielding from the relativistic barrage of interstellar flight


    17. Burn’s flight helmet poked in the open bridge hatch


    18. After only a few seconds of silent flight with the debris field passing below, Burn’s voice spoke in his ear


    19. His flight helmet showed him spotty imagery obscured by the debris


    20. Almost instantly after that, his flight helmet’s visor painted a patch of stars fatter and brighter than they should have been

    21. It was a realization so cold and chilling that he shivered inside his flight suit


    22. The projection in Jordo’s flight helmet now showed the actual location of the enemy, some 300 meters away from where they’d thought he was


    23. Burn insisted on charging the capacitors in flight


    24. While an already crackling Tipperary settled in position just 2Ks from the point in the vacuum where she would breach space, Jordo zoomed in with his flight helmet and interrogated the closing alien warships one more time


    25. "Lancer 1-2, zoom in with your flight helmet and tell me how many gun towers you see on those incoming alien destroyers


    26. Burn got confirmation in her flight helmet a few seconds later that headless Audacity had obeyed her autopilot script and come to a stop behind them


    27. Once Hardway’s battlegroup and convoy had finally rendezvoused with Admiral Ming’s combined fleet over the debris field that had been an alien task force only hours ago, the Air Group Commander called the Lancers to Bay 23 in full flight gear


    28. They led us out of our cell and along a wide corridor and past empty and dilapidated glass-shelled office spaces, through a set of double doors and up one flight of concrete steps


    29. The gaoler fiddled with his keys and unlocked the door at the end of the passage, pushing it back to reveal a short flight of steps carved out of natural rock


    30. God alone knew who dreamt up this vision of Hell, he thought, as he ascended a flight of narrow, pinched steps

    31. A little pulse started beating in her head as the adrenalin prepared her body for flight or fight


    32. alarmed, but it was still in control of its flight and therefore not


    33. flight, especially with the responsibility of carrying folk


    34. Around his head, wheeling in flight,


    35. The flight took barely 40 minutes


    36. But the flight was over in no time and it wasn't long before I was experiencing the space and light of Bristol airport for the first time


    37. It was hot and busy and I groaned aloud when I heard that my 2230 flight was delayed by almost an hour


    38. Thru her discussions with Jeffery, Miss Susan had seen the need for warm clothing for the riders when they were in flight


    39. It would allow the riders mobility and at the same time keep them from falling off the dragons while they used the crossbows in flight


    40. After all, the flight was only four hours

    41. I tried to turn my mind off the impending take-off with some casual conversation about the library but, 'This is my first flight and


    42. My flight was delayed


    43. Daniel and Kate knew this was the mating flight for Jake and Queenie


    44. Then my flight was called and I was like a schoolboy on an outing and couldn't wait to join the shuffling queue and be herded onto the compact turbo-prop of nineteen seats


    45. They went up a flight of stairs just aft of the middle mast and into a wide hallway with a nice kitchen in the middle, between two large tables, a few lounges with bookcases and candlelanterns nearby


    46. So, how do you do sir? I hope you had a good flight


    47. They were tough flight trainers, but their flyers performed with split second precision


    48. He bowed to Jake and then left the Hall and took to flight with Daowyn and Ash


    49. 'You arrive at the terminal, see the insurance desk, you are asked if the place you're going is your final destination and you are told this is your last and final call for flight 666, terminating at Athens Airport


    50. The birds sang sweetly in the hedgerows and the last of the house martins were diving and darting across the sky as they fed themselves up for their long autumn flight south














































    1. The arrow was a yard long, flighted with swan feathers


    1. He didn’t bother watching her any more because he knew she was ok and his feelings of love had only ever been a flighting crush, not enough to die for and certainly not a love that would keep his heart for eternity


    1. Except for the occasional flights for food, contact with the town was on a minimal basis for the dragon riders


    2. It would be somewhere to sit under a broad, green, canvas brolly on hot summer afternoons, somewhere that he could rest and admire the shapes and flights of colour that would fill his new flower garden


    3. It was a short hallway and three flights of stairs to her chambers


    4. admire the shapes and flights of colour that would fill his new


    5. several flights of stairs to locate his accommodation


    6. As was my habit, for luck and from routine, I bit off the smallest bit of the fletching of one of the flights, notched the arrow, drew back on the bow and aimed exactly at the spot he'd indicated


    7. We had difficulties with some of the passengers, the planes were overbooked and the flights were late


    8. such things), we climbed the three flights of stairs to our


    9. It would be a long toil up the eight flights of stairs out of this dig with the base especially, but he could probably get Kuna down here to help with that one


    10. In spite of this sad state of affairs Fizzicist and Tables accompanied by several local highbrows descended on to the infamous city and were immediately lost in a crowd all demanding extra flights

    11. They went down two more flights of stairs, then down another hallway and passed another vacant reception desk


    12. Impervious to attack, the enemy threw thick flights of spears


    13. Flights into orbit continue and we still service Mars colony and the Galilean mining operations, but now only probes ever go further, manned exploration or colonisation missions are deemed too expensive and a waste of resources


    14. He remembered his father telling him when he was a young boy of his taking extensive flights over these very ranges when the Aquifer was in its initial development stages


    15. In many people’s minds the Christian Bible - and by that we refer to the Hebrew and Aramaic texts in the Old Testament and the Greek in the New Testament - is just another religious book, containing mythical information that is not verifiable, and questionable tales that are considered by many to be untrustworthy flights of fantasy


    16. One can"t help wondering how large his own carbon footprint is, considering the gas-guzzling SUV he drives, as well as his not infrequent flights on private jets


    17. The guards supported him, one arm under each of his, as he painfully ascended two flights of stairs, trying to ignore the searing burn in his leg


    18. The airport features direct or connecting flights to anyplace in Mexico or the rest of the world


    19. A threadbare carpet led them up two flights of stairs permeated with the scent of lye, which did not quite overpower the underlying urine stench


    20. She forced herself not to leap down the flights of stairs in her rush to return to the anonymity of the fights

    21. I turned and ran out of the room, down the corridor and ran down the four flights of stairs and out of the hospital entrance


    22. No wonder there are always so many screaming babies on flights – they’re hungry!


    23. The idea behind the Seychelles attack was to gain landing rights for South Africa for most countries banned the national air service from flights across their airspace


    24. I felt it odd that this flight had not appeared on the scheduled flights on the Internet when I reserved our tickets


    25. Sometimes I popped off a couple of flares at training flights led by the more asinine instructors


    26. Then, our original British Airways flight was reconstructed, but we were told that it would be better for us to remain in the flight with Iberia because the suitcases may have already been transferred there… Naturally, we were not the only ones affected, since there were other flights also cancelled


    27. He was keeping copious notes on the findings of the test flights


    28. A half-dozen flights, in twin-engine bombers, and a few flights in a combat zone


    29. When Colling replied that they did, she ushered them over the threshold and up three flights of narrow stairs to a garret room with a single small window overlooking a roof at the rear of the house


    30. “Do you have a continuous log of all flights of the past…oh, hell…” How long had he been out here?

    31. James went down the flights of stairs fast, with practiced ease


    32. I went up two more flights to the 29th floor and stopped to rest, and to think


    33. I climbed the remaining four flights of stairs with brought me to the door that led out onto the Ivory Tower roof


    34. He had represented Barry Seale, the drug smuggler on the back end of the Iran-Contra flights that came into Mena Airport in Arkansas when Clinton was governor


    35. A circle of communication took about a month if I was lucky with the flights, but five to six weeks was usual


    36. Cara leads us to a back staircase, and we join a group of terrified Erudite as we run up one, two, three flights of stairs


    37. Jason ran with Taser up two flights of stairs and in to his bedroom


    38. consultants their flights would be cancelled if the report was not finished on time


    39. The city's airport was not very big, only one lane for local flights


    40. Professor Hojo’s mumbling could be heard from the flights

    41. Becky wrote back and told him that the conference hotel had been booked as well as the flights and that she had reserved rooms almost next to each other so she could keep an eye on him


    42. powerful country, a calamity such as this has been allowed to happen, particularly twenty minutes after the initial attack?” To understand that, it is essential to bear in mind that, with countless number of daily domestic flights, a free and open society such as the United States cannot send chase fighters to shoot down any aircraft that strays from its normal rout


    43. with connecting flights to London


    44. Daily flights are also


    45. After that time all flights out of Heathrow will be


    46. I uniformly struck out because the 13th was only two days after 9/11, most flights had been cancelled, and therefore many stranded travelers had rented cars even for cross country trips home


    47. He ascended the three flights of stairs to the last door at the top


    48. Sixty-four more assassins have Translocated in, four flights of twelve soldiers equipped with various spelled weapons and armor, and one team of sixteen wizards


    49. Some flights are sky length, others only the span of the trees, but no bird need travel alone


    50. More pressing than any of this had been the constant singing of the cane and the soaring flights of the snow-raven, both of whom were restless to be gone and would not, he knew, leave without him









































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    Synonyms for "flight"

    escape flight flying flight of stairs flight of steps trajectory fledge soaring fleeing running away retreat avoidance flight of fancy inspiration imagination stairs steps ascent fire escape

    "flight" definitions

    a formation of aircraft in flight


    an instance of traveling by air


    a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next


    the act of escaping physically


    an air force unit smaller than a squadron


    passing above and beyond ordinary bounds


    the path followed by an object moving through space


    a flock of flying birds


    a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports


    shoot a bird in flight


    fly in a flock


    decorate with feathers