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fly, flying



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Idioms and Phrases

  • get off the ground (to a flying start)
  • go fly a kite
  • let fly
  • make the dust fly
  • not hurt a fly
  • on the fly
  • send flying
  • when pigs fly
  • with flying colors
  • flies
  • flight
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Example Sentences

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"Now, I know it all," buzzed Last Fly, flying out of the window.

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Last week, in the 1940 edition of that publication, under a picture of a Lockheed Hudson bomber being towed across the Canadian border was discovered this Grey time bomb: "Now that the United States have decided to support the war 'to the last Englishman' preparations are being made to fly flying fortresses direct to England."

Flown is the perfect participle of fly, flying; flowed, of flow, flowing.

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Dere he come," said the negro to himself, "jist like a fly flying into de spider-web.

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It will be seen that we do not argue from the self-determined wishes or desires of any individual or class of individuals to their possible fulfilment,—to the existence in Nature of some supply answering to that demand; we do not argue that because many men or all men desire to fly, flying must for that reason alone be possible.

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