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UK
/flˈaɪt/
]
[ US /ˈfɫaɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫaɪt/ ]
NOUN
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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
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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).
- 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
- He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV