How To Use Fly on In A Sentence
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The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
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Sponge the woolly bits with neat washing-up liquid, suggests a reader who says her father used to deal with greenfly on his roses in this way.
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Then again, there are those who reckon that's a load of old tosh and who would love nothing more than to be a fly on the wall next time BT's chiefs get together.
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This is partly because the office of mayor is chiefly one of influence rather than power.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
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It was only the sun, flashing briefly on her bleached hair.
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One universal rule is that dogs cannot fly on a plane without the owner on board.
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Blue - and - white eyespots adorn the velvety black wings of a butterfly on a Polynesian island.
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall of that French château!
The Sun
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I don't know how the future will take us, how we will fly on the wings and winds of fate and fortune.
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He had flown the first strike into Lebanon and was about to fly on the last strike of the night.
FLASH POINT
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She could not help thinking that he was crushing a fly on the wheel.
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I speak to him briefly on the phone; he has chickenpox and sounds miserable.
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The bill has a number of features, and I will speak briefly on a couple of them.
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In situ development of a satyrid butterfly on calcareous grassland exposed to elevated carbon dioxide.
New Content on CO2 Science
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Heat the oil in a pan over a high heat and, when smoking, add the fillet and sear briefly on all sides until crusted.
How to cook perfect beef wellington
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A fieldworker can learn more from perturbing the system than from pretending to be an invisible fly on the wall.
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Its value bears chiefly on change: it can be intensified or subtilized.
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She could not help thinking that he was crushing a fly on the wheel.
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The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and
Kim
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Their next step was to build and experiment with gliders , aircraft that fly on wind currents.
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
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I'd give my ears for a chance to fly on Concorde.
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We can never be a fly on the wall to our own personality dissections, watching as people pick us apart after meeting us.
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He told me that he was teaching a young Infantry officer to fly on some under-powered, dual-control machine.
Marazan
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I found a green fly on the table.
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The two pass each other briefly on an escalator leading to a public bathroom.
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I wish I could be a fly on the barroom wall to hear him regale his buddies with his preceptorship experiences over a beer next week. posted by #1 Dinosaur @ 6:14 AM
Archive 2007-03-01
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He won the 100m backstroke and freestyle on day one, and followed up by winning the 100m butterfly on day two.
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And, when my daughter was small, I made her a sun dress, carefully embroidering a butterfly on the bodice.
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I was a bIt'shy, like a fly on the wall.
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But now there is a cheaper way for business travellers to fly on a private jet.
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A mayfly nymph was the most successful fly on the day and other successful flies were the Gosling and Bumble Olive.
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His reaction has instead been chiefly one of anger, and with good reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.
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The distinction between a job and an occupation is chiefly one of scope.
A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
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Gray Drakes are the best dry fly on the Muskegon River.
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We want the audience to feel like a fly on the wall.
Times, Sunday Times
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A tiny fleck of blood lifted from my cheek with a tingle not unlike a butterfly on my skin.
Crossed
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Thick fog, freezing rain, howling wind and heavy snow are everyday factors helicopter crews face when called to fly on one of the unit's many rescue missions.
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The lecturer, in a most interesting and instructive address, dwelt chiefly on the principal characteristics of the three classes of fowls, the non-sitting or table fowl, the layer, and the general-purpose fowl.
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I've got one really pretty party dress with a big butterfly on it.
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I swatted a fly on the bus and I got to wondering what happens to these souls once you've absorbed them?
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall of that French château!
The Sun
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The five-hour flight to Honolulu aboard a chartered 737 — one everyday travelers would fly on — hasn't even taken off, but Nelson and assistant coach Larry Riley, near the back of the jet, have christened the opening of gin rummy season.
Warriors ride last season's wave to camp in Hawaii
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Peter is nothing but a fly on the wheel.
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To put fly on left side table.
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He would have been highly gratified, therefore, had he been a fly on the wall of King's office just then.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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His hooves clopped briefly on the stone floor of the stall as he moved away from the door.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall when those two get home!
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He was only a fly on the wheel.
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The aircraft was not equipped to fly on instruments in meteorological conditions.
O'Brien, Kevin
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We were to fly on the airplane, and bring back the badly wounded passengers.
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While the article touches briefly on trends among women waterfowlers, it mostly follows this group through an unsuccessful Monday hunt, during which they manage to take none of the ducks that pass (some within 40 yards), they smoke, pass around a flask, apparently wear purple bands on their hats and finally leave empty-handed.
Poor Representation
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Also, at least in many rural communities, the square dance and hoedown are still around, even if chiefly on that life support of a special evening of ‘Western’ dancing.
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The Guardian's music writers let fly on their personal dislikes.
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FLY ON THE WALL also wins the award for "most divinely picklish use of the word gherkin in all of lit'rature!
The Undersung Book Awards
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One of my favourite dresses was the butterfly one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through this program, student experiments were selected in January 2002 to fly on either a NASA suborbital sounding rocket in June or a future Space Shuttle mission.
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I wish I could be a fly on the wall when they discuss my future.
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I can imagine the pair of them up to the chest in waders, casting a fly on the Tay: they have the amiable mien of anglers and look as if they can afford it.
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Table 5-1 describes briefly one of the many different ways each style might be perceived as effective or ineffective by others.
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Mivart adduces this case, chiefly on account of the supposed difficulty of organs, namely the avicularia of the Polyzoa and the pedicellariæ of the Echinodermata, which he considers as essentially similar, having been developed through natural selection in widely distinct divisions of the animal kingdom.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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We spoke briefly on the phone.
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Foxton still remains a popular attraction, though obviously chiefly on account of the Locks.
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She sat down stiffly on a chair by the wall, aware that they were looking at her.
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The VASC captured futuristic designs in a special NASA display that shows airplane concepts that may some day fly on an interstate skyway.
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There you can be a fly on the wall and listen in on the conversations that men are rarely privy to.
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She's really large I don't think she should fly on the airplane.
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The paper on which the books were printed was flimsy and cheap, and the books sold chiefly on the strength of their garish covers.
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She learned to fly on a dare.
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More than half its passengers fly on long-haul routes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only way to live is to shack up with losers whose natural life expectancy isn't much more than a mayfly on a good day.
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She could not help thinking that he was breaking a fly on the wheel.
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High fences around Admiralty installations gave good views as the birds perched briefly on the wires, taking their bearings.
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But it is chiefly on sculpture and architecture that ornamental devices act as cartouches for heraldic display.
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In his youth he was much addicted to poetry, and a great many pennillion of his composition, chiefly on his own thievish exploits, are yet recited by the inhabitants of certain districts of the shires of Brecon, Carmarthen, and
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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In La Plata the puma preys chiefly on deer, ostriches, bizcacha, and other small quadrupeds; it there seldom attacks cattle or horses, and most rarely man.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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I wish I could be a fly on the wall when they discuss my future.
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A grim smile played briefly on his lips and she knew she wasn't fooling him one bit.
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Cattle feed chiefly on grass.
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In the past, the government has used regulatory tools like levying higher taxes, chiefly on cigarettes, in the belief that an increase in the price of tobacco motivates smokers to quit.
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Unfortuantely for the makers, those of us who were around in the 80's can remember Mrs T. casually swatting Ken and the GLC aside much as one might squash a greenfly on a rose bush so that description doesn't hold any weight at all, does it ?
OPEN THREAD
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We are all one-winged angel, can fly only embracing.
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The paper on which the books were printed was flimsy and cheap, and the books sold chiefly on the strength of their garish covers.
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Painton dwells briefly on the possible symbolism of rose windows and details typical decorative programmes.
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What I'd give to be a fly on the wall when Davis finds out what's happened to his precious cargo.
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He returned home hoping to immortalise his experiences in poetry, and he worked briefly on DC Thomson's comics before the Edinburgh literary scene bested him ( "I had plenty to say but I didn't know how to say it").
Observer Ethical Awards: Gordon Roddick, Lifetime Achievement Award
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What I'd give to be a fly on the wall when Davis finds out what's happened to his precious cargo.
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I would have given a lot to be a fly on the wall so I could hear what final entreaties Ellen was making.
BETTER THAN THIS
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Hi guys, found this tiny mantidfly on my back door.
What's That Bug?
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We were to fly on the airplane, and bring back the badly wounded passengers.
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The motorist is advised to use the choke briefly only when absolutely necessary.
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The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and Kim, making sure that there were no snakes, lay down in the crotch of the twisted roots.
Kim
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And, like Jack, he walked very stiffly on his guard and very circumspectly.
CHAPTER XXIX
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The chapters flow together beautifully, giving you the feeing that you're a fly on the wall at a comedy summit.
ISatiristas! Bill Maher, George Carlin, And More Talk Satire And The State Of Comedy (PHOTOS)
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They prey chiefly on chipmunks and other rodents.
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I would have given a lot to be a fly on the wall so I could hear what final entreaties Ellen was making.
BETTER THAN THIS
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As fer me," said Cap'n Bill slowly, "I'm goin 'to believe it, too, by'm'by, when I've seen the umbrel fly once.
Sky Island: being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies
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I had the opportunity to fly on a transplant airlift.
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His mind touched briefly on the two defaulters who were awaiting their fate in the basement cells.
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He said you'd have to be a fly on the wall at a gathering of British Aristocracy to find a group of less use and worth.
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The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
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The book touches briefly on the issue of genetic predispositions, but does not dwell on it.
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This is partly because the office of mayor is chiefly one of influence rather than power.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
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This is partly because the office of mayor is chiefly one of influence rather than power.
Times, Sunday Times
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Encountering numerous problems along the way, Mr Nichols O'Keefe was at one point forced to stay behind in Rome to fix a broken-down bus, having to fly on later to Damascus.
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It has touched briefly on a number of activities which all contribute to better staff utilisation.
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- Vladimir Putin heralding Leonardo DiCaprio as a nastoyachshi muzhik for daring to fly on to the Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg this week after his first flight got turned back to NYC when an engine blew out and his second, on a private jet, had to land in Finland because of heavy winds.
Quoted: Vladimir Putin on Leo DiCaprio, a total 'nastoyachshi muzhik'
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A subtler execution with the butterfly only a pattern of fracturing on the glass might have allowed the symbol to be read as synchronicity rather than Fate, a signifier projected by the hero as a crystallisation of his epiphany.
Ethics and Enthusiasm
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When I went to hook the fly on the eyelet the hook was half gone!
Bad luck?!?
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Her erratic gaze paused briefly on the broken nail she was picking with her other hand.
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Ophelia remembered her father telling her a tale he had invented when she was very young about a tiny pink pill that miniaturized the swallower to such an extent that he or she was able to fly on the back of a budgerigar.9 According to Tom Maschler, Roald first started talking to him about The Minpins in the early 1980s, but had then put it aside.
Storyteller
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The attractiveness of the idea of an Imperial legislature is chiefly on the surface, and I have very strong doubts of its realisability.
What is Coming?
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Watch for greenfly on pots of cuttings on windowsills.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I got home, an elegant woman, with frosted hair and dressed in Armani, sat stiffly on our couch.
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The distinction between a job and an occupation is chiefly one of scope.
A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
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Mr. Bush will also fly on to Rome, where he has meetings planned with the prime minter and also with the pope.
CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2007
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he tells her the news.
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Rick Seaney , CEO of FareCompare.com, said, Consumers feel like they're being nickeled and dimed, but people who fly on Spirit are already used to it.
Spirit Air's New First: Levying Fee for Passes
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I chose a fly fishing outfit with a very big streamer fly on a size 3/0 hook.
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With the Geostar we survey on-the-fly on 100-foot intervals, so we create a more accurate topographical map.
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Testament, are concise literal, and solid, but contain not that inexhausted and excellent treasure of morality which we find in St. Chrysostom, whose commentaries Theodoret had always before him: this latter excels chiefly on the prophets.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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She was wearing a mini skirt with a chequered pattern and a pink and white string top with a butterfly on it.
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She was wearing a mini skirt with a chequered pattern and a pink and white string top with a butterfly on it.
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There is a fly on her loose coil of hair.
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A fifth lion, rearing up on its hind legs, prepares to attack an unsuspecting but seemingly ill-natured winged griffin seated stiffly on its haunches.
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They had a telescope where you could see a fly on a chimney from 300 feet away.
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This is partly because the office of mayor is chiefly one of influence rather than power.
Times, Sunday Times
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To spare no effort on the job would be to break a butterfly on the wheel.
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He is a fly on the wheel.
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Then her eyes fell briefly on the painting her grandmother had given her.
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Her erratic gaze paused briefly on the broken nail she was picking with her other hand.
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I sawd a led baloon fly on myfbusterz a cupel uv weeks ago.
I gotz u a rly good book… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reply Obj. 5: Apart from the mysteries of the spiritual interpretation, this place would seem to be inaccessible, chiefly on account of the extreme heat in the middle zone by reason of the nighness of the sun.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Her erratic gaze paused briefly on the broken nail she was picking with her other hand.
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The foregoing sections of this article have dwelt briefly on musical issues that are critical in developing musicianship.
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Quesada tells of a near 3 hour meeting in which Branagh basically threw down a one-man show of the entire flick, and touches briefly on the as-of-yet-uncast Odin character:
Marvel Editor-In-Chief Talks Thor, Iron Man 2 Movies « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall of that French château!
The Sun
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One of my favourite dresses was the butterfly one.
Times, Sunday Times
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She met John briefly on Friday night.
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My room is elegantly simple, with a framed captured purple butterfly on the wall morpho sega, small Moroccan glass vases on a shelf, and a king sized white bed.
Karin Badt: Surf and Yoga: A New Way to Experience Morocco
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The couple chatted briefly on the doorstep before going inside.
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Jack at last relented about my going to Tartan Day - but I had to fly on the cheapest economy ticket, while Jack and the rest of the nobs flew First.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzsche
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When scouting, he focuses chiefly on the player's personal qualities rather than his physical output.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's really large I don't think she should fly on the airplane.
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Now "voice placing" depends primarily on correct _vowel placing_, which in turn depends on proper adjustment of the resonators, which again depends chiefly on the positions and motions of the organs of articulation.
Resonance in Singing and Speaking
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R.L. Burnside sits on his plastic porch chair as calm and motionless as a stone Buddha, then his hand flashes out to swat a fly on his leg.
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He is a ruler without power, a mere fly on the wheel.
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She could not help thinking that he was breaking a fly on the wheel.
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Any subdivision of dementia type that is based chiefly on the death certificate is bound to be inaccurate.
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I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.
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Blue - and - white eye spots adorn the velvety black wings of butterfly on Polynesian island.
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I wish I'd been a fly on the wall during that conversation.
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The bus for our house came first and Jackie got on it, standing briefly on the platform as it pulled away and staring back, before retiring to his reserved seat under the stairs.
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To spare no effort on the job would be to break a butterfly on the wheel.
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We touched briefly on the subject.
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He will talk briefly on these too, with a backdrop of dramatic mountain scenery.
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`What I'd give to be a fly on the wall when Drago finds out what's happened to his precious cargo.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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The docent was a lovely lady with a butterfly on her head (it was alive and just sat there), who enthusiastically gave me all kinds of facts on these incredible lepidopteras (latin for butterfly).
Baltiblogs
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There is a fly on her loose coil of hair.
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Such scenes suggest the larger problem with the film, which is chiefly one of subtlety.
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Most common are greenfly on roses and blackfly on nasturtiums and broad beans, but dozens of their relations also attack other plants.
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Weston went briefly on the rampage, hitting four boundaries in two overs, before settling down again.
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Stocks with no assets or earnings can fly on hot air.
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Derian balanced on a second campstool, his hands folded stiffly on his knees.
Through Wolfs Eyes
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As early as the 1970s, population geneticists began to notice a peculiar characteristic among drosophila, the fast-breeding fruit fly on which most of our reproductive knowledge is based.
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There was a good article recently by Phyllis Schlafly on the readoption of "older" methods of math instruction - which parents and common-sense teachers had been pushing for all along, in favor of the trendier new methods pushed by the public education establishment.
Sound Politics: It's About Black Fathers, Not Better Hip-Hop
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I managed to catch the prized Cleopatra butterfly on my birthday.
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I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.
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Some are just amazing bits of work, including this one that looks like a standard butterfly on first glance, but is actually the four finch species that helped Charles Darwin formulate his early ideas on evolution.
Boing Boing
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The story went that every year on April 30th the witches from all over Germany would fly on their brooms to meet and celebrate the witches' sabbath on the Brocken mountain.
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Why did they not ride out the door like a hitchhiking butterfly on the shirtsleeve of a visitor like me?
Amaryllis in Blueberry
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The highway takes you through native bush known at Fergusons Bush and then at Pukekura 25 km south of Ross, your attention will be caught by the model of the giant sandfly on the front wall of the Bushman's Centre.
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Cattle feed chiefly on grass.
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A candidate who does NOT fly on a broom is a now a serious proposition!
The race for recovery
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In the morning we will fly on to Yundum airport and take surface transportation into Banjul, the capital of The Gambia.
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What I'd give to be a fly on the wall when Davis finds out what's happened to his precious cargo.
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I remember the journey chiefly on account of his fund of stories.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ireland still swarming with beggars who marched about in families subsisting chiefly on the charity of the poor; Ireland of which the hedge-school was plainly to him the most characteristic institution.
Irish Books and Irish People
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Prior to the mayor's edict, it was expected that the banner would fly on the same pole as the US flag along with a banner commemorating American prisoners of war.
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I don't have a flag to fly on national holidays, and the most I'll do for Christmas is a wreath on the door because it has good memories and the scent of pine is rare in subtropical Florida.
The Glorious Fourth
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He has published more than a dozen articles, chiefly on ancient philosophy and ethics.
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This is partly because the office of mayor is chiefly one of influence rather than power.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd give my ears for a chance of fly on concorde.
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This is partly because the office of mayor is chiefly one of influence rather than power.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when I finished reading the paper, I spotted a housefly on my refrigerator, so I rolled up the paper and tried to whack it.
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The Admiral Magalhaens depended chiefly on the naval skill of thirty of his Portuguese countrymen whom he took with him, as he did likewise on that of Serrano, who had served for many years in India, and for some time at the Moluccas, which islands they hoped to reach from the eastward, instead of their being approached, as before, from the west.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
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When scouting, he focuses chiefly on the player's personal qualities rather than his physical output.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a fly on her loose coil of hair.
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The second daughter sat briefly on his lap and clucked him under the chin.
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He would like to fly on January 8.
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She met John briefly on Friday night.
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Lindsay also sported several startling tattoos—a dragonfly on her shoulder, a snake at her hip, and what looked like a USDA symbol perched atop the crack of her butt—made all the more vivid by the contrast of their inkiness against her ethereally pale skin.
Younger
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If you want to juggle, fly on the trapeze, tumble: here's the place to do it.
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He reveals details of boardroom machinations and backstairs skirmishes which only a fly on the wall could have witnessed.
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We spoke briefly on the phone.
