FLIGHT in a Sentence
Learn FLIGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
270 example sentences for FLIGHT, such as:
1. Please check your flight timings carefully.
2. I was talking to a woman I met on the flight.
3. Your carrier for this flight is British Airways.
4. Her flight has just come up on the arrivals board.
5. She waited by the door like a small animal poised for flight.
2. I was talking to a woman I met on the flight.
3. Your carrier for this flight is British Airways.
4. Her flight has just come up on the arrivals board.
5. She waited by the door like a small animal poised for flight.
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Meanings and Examples of FLIGHT
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flight
n. passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
n. a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 His body and brain ached with indescribable weariness, and he could think of nothing to say or to do that should arrest the mad flight of the moments.
2 Then she turned blindly, bent on flight into the refreshment rooms, but her skirt caught on a nail of the booth.
3 Prissy made a lunge past her, bent on flight, but Scarlett grabbed her.
4 Evidently the Wilkes negroes had taken flight or followed the Yankees.
5 In the flight from Atlanta, he had understood nothing except that the Yankees were after him and now he still lived in fear that the Yankees would catch him and cut him to pieces.
6 It all came back to her, the sickeningly hot day of the baby's birth, the agony of fear, the flight and Rhett's desertion.
7 But when the carriage came nearer, her flight was checked by her amazement.
8 They had nursed the wounded, closed dying eyes, suffered war and fire and devastation, known terror and flight and starvation.
9 The house was high from the ground, built over a large cellar, and the long sweeping flight of stairs which reached it made it look slightly ridiculous.
10 To Scarlett, that uniform and those gold buttons would always mean the fears of the siege, the terror of flight, the looting and burning, the desperate poverty and the grinding work at Tara.
11 And, too dazed to catch herself, she rolled over and over to the bottom of the flight.
12 When it was announced, a week after his flight, Atlanta was wild with excitement and joy.
13 She stood irresolutely for a moment as though she longed to take flight.
14 It would be a comfort to sit with Maybelle, remembering that Maybelle had buried a baby, dead in the mad flight before Sherman.
15 But gradually the captive's gasps grew fainter, or the other paid less heed to them: the horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight.
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1 The idea of flight had been kicking around for centuries before man actually achieved it.
2 He could have died after developing deep vein thrombosis during a flight to Sydney.
3 She waited by the door like a small animal poised for flight.
4 Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.
5 It's wise to check whether the flight times have changed before you leave for the airport.
6 I was talking to a woman I met on the flight.
7 The aircraft's behavior was satisfactory on its first test flight.
8 Her flight has just come up on the arrivals board.
9 Your carrier for this flight is British Airways.
10 A long flight of stairs made the center inaccessible to disabled visitors.
11 Passengers are requested to check in two hours before the flight.
12 Please check your flight timings carefully.
13 Your flight arrives in Malaga at ten o'clock where it connects with a coach service to your hotel.
14 Modern missiles are so accurate because their flight is controlled by computer.
15 In the course of evolution, some birds have lost the power of flight.