[
UK
/flˈaɪt/
]
[ US /ˈfɫaɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫaɪt/ ]
NOUN
-
the act of escaping physically
he made his escape from the mental hospital
the canary escaped from its cage
his flight was an indication of his guilt -
a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports
I took the noon flight to Chicago - an air force unit smaller than a squadron
- a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
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an instance of traveling by air
flying was still an exciting adventure for him - a flock of flying birds
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passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
a flight of fancy
flights of imagination
flights of rhetoric - a formation of aircraft in flight
- the path followed by an object moving through space
VERB
- shoot a bird in flight
-
decorate with feathers
fledge an arrow -
fly in a flock
flighting wild geese
How To Use flight In A Sentence
- In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight. The Frozen Pirate
- The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
- Clearly the megalosaurus in the opening passage of Bleak House is a flight of hyperbolic fancy (inspired, I would guess, by the papier-mâché dinosaurs constructed for the Crystal Palace Exhibition, a couple of years earlier).
- GENERAL LEVALLE, Argentina—Pilots often stare in disbelief when they make their first flight over this hamlet on the verdant pampa. Maybe Graciela Sees It From Heaven, This Huge Guitar Made of Trees
- the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane
- The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
- Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row.
- Fuss' photograms have reproduced water droplets, birds in flight, moving light and even a trail of snakes moving across light-sensitive paper, dusted with talcum powder.
- A dried-out horseshoe crab is a delicate thing and there's no way it would survive the flight in my checked baggage. Horseshoe Crabs and the TSA
- Lime hawk moth moth is named after the hawk because it capable of powerful, long- distance flight. Times, Sunday Times
