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Sentences with fly

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  • The door flew open
  • Time flies
  • For those people who fly through a 2 or more time zones.
  • These are very important factors in fly fishing, so read carefully.
  • That explanation just won't fly
  • fly a kite
  • We will explore the basics of how spinning reels, bait casting reels, fly fishing reels, and closed faced reels work.
  • He even spent one summer working at a fly -in fishing camp in the Yukon.
  • The planes flew through the clouds. [VERB preposition/adverb]
  • He flew to Los Angeles. [VERB preposition/adverb]
  • Black skimmers fly along the beach in Biloxi.
  • Parker had successfully flown both aircraft. [VERB noun]
  • It may be possible to fly the women and children out on Thursday. [VERB noun adverb/preposition]
  • His long, uncovered hair flew back in the wind. [VERB adverb/preposition]
  • They flew the flag of the African National Congress. [VERB noun]
  • She flew to their bedsides when they were ill. [VERB preposition/adverb]
  • I must fly or I'll miss my plane. [VERB]
  • Rumours had been flying around the workrooms all morning. [VERB preposition/adverb]
  • To fly a kite
  • She came flying towards me
  • Time flies
  • He flew the country
  • He flew into a rage again
  • Peregrines fly rooks
  • I'll give it a fly
  • Bits of paper flying about.
  • Flags flying in the breeze.
  • He flew from the room.
  • The door flew open.
  • The probe will fly past the planet.
  • How time flies!
  • A mother fox will fly at anyone approaching her kits.
  • He flied into right field.
  • It seemed like a good idea, but it just wouldn't fly.
  • To fly a kite.
  • To fly a flag.
  • To fly the Pacific.
  • We fly merchandise to Boston.
  • To fly someone's wrath.
  • If there's one fly in the ointment, it's that there may not be the money to finish the job.
  • Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
  • When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
  • We had a quick half-hour fly back into the city.
  • Let's see if that idea flies.    You know, I just don't think that's going to fly. Why don't you spend your time on something better?
  • A door flies open;  a bomb flies apart
  • Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
  • Be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "fly,"— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the slightest gesture of illegal conveyancing. (Charles Dickens, "Arcadia"; Household Words Vol. 7 p. 381)
  • He's pretty fly.
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