How To Use volant In A Sentence
- What aspect of the ratite genome accounts for the larger size relative to volant birds?
- All birds-even the largest volant species, have relatively low wing loadings relative to, for example, airplanes.
- Today the company offers 300 different notebooks, cahiers, folios and diaries, while last year they caused a splash by launching a range of candy-coloured 'volant' Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Education in the schools for cadets, regularity in service, obligation to keep the companies full instead of pocketing a portion of the pay in the name of imaginary soldiers who appeared only on the registers, and who were called dummies (_passe-volants_), the necessity of wearing uniform, introduced into the army customs to which the French nobility, as undisciplined as they were brave, had hitherto been utter strangers. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
- In patentibus Asiae campis certo die congregant se, eam quae novissime advenit lacerant, inde avolant. Anatomy of Melancholy
- He introduced ambulances volantes, light, two-wheeled, sprung vehicles, drawn by two horses, for the rapid evacuation of the wounded.
- In birds, bats and other volant tetrapods, the skin membranes that function in flight are termed patagia. Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
- After islands or continents were raised above the primeval ocean, great numbers of the most simple animals would attempt to seek food at the edges or shores of the new land, and might thence gradually become amphibious; as is now seen in the frog, who changes from an aquatic animal to an amphibious one; and in the gnat, which changes from a natant to a volant state. Canto I
- And upon the top of that one of the stone pillars supporting the gate which I could see, stood a creature of stone, whether natant, volant, passant, couchant, or rampant, I could not tell, only it looked like something terrible enough for a quite antediluvian heraldry. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
- Anne sauveuse de mon cuir chevelu maltraité par un Pinku qui oublie que parfois l'apprence ca compte quand meme un minimum, arrive sur sa plaquette de cacheton volante, me conseillant de prendre de la lobamine truc pidel chouette nom barbare de medicament. Pinku-tk Diary Entry