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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
- 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 crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
- 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.
- the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane
- Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row.
- If you think spaceflight is a bad thing, shouldn't we eliminate it entirely? Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch
- Promoted to Commander/05 (22 October 2009), currently in refresher flight training (jets) with Training Wing JOSEPH ANTHONY ROSSI
- He was told he could not have a refund of the excess baggage charge because he didn't apply for the refund before he had cancelled his flight. Times, Sunday Times
- 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
