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Example sentences for "fliers"

Lexicographically close words:
flicking; flicks; flie; flied; flier; flies; fliessen; fliest; flieth; flight
  1. This was the real thing, because the fliers were looking for German U-boats.

  2. An hour or two sufficed to gather the necessary facts, the fliers returned to headquarters, and immediately the retreat was begun.

  3. For example, at aviation headquarters, Mr. Baker asked if the fliers who came first from America were the first to have their commissions after the final flights in France.

  4. There were several aspirants in the juvenile class on the grounds as well as fliers of more mature years, for Mr. Higgins had interested some other capitalists, and it had been decided to make quite an event out of the aerial meet.

  5. However, they may as well know now as any other time that they aren't the only fliers in the air.

  6. Only in the very first part of the war, when the Germans outnumbered us in fliers to an enormous extent, did they try to do much from our top-side.

  7. The British were fairly short of fliers then, or I should not have been sent out.

  8. I think fliers are born, not made, anyway.

  9. He quickly turned his loop into a side-loop, slid down swiftly, caught himself, and assured that he had escaped both fliers for the moment, took a rapid glance at his compass and saw that he was headed straight for home.

  10. I had seen enemy planes go down with enemy fliers in them, but that rigid figure got me.

  11. By a certain point of identification all of the fliers knew Dusseldorf when that large factory center was reached.

  12. The Brighton boys soon learned that the most outstanding characteristic of veteran fliers was modesty.

  13. At such times fliers may be made or marred in a manner that may be, for good or for ill, irrevocable.

  14. It's up to America and the Allies to keep on turning out planes and fliers at top speed.

  15. You see the Boche fliers stay their side, mostly, and when we drop one he goes down among his own lot.

  16. They tell me that the French fliers never could withstand the temptation of seeing such a plane hovering round.

  17. Bob was one of the soundest fliers of the six of them, but he was forever making hard work out of anything he did not understand from the ground up.

  18. Three Boche fliers of the seven had been accounted for, and a fourth driven down.

  19. The pilots selected for these four one-man fliers were Parker, Jimmy Hill, Joe Little and Harry Corwin.

  20. You can throw them 'way over in a big arc that lands you a long distance from where some of these Boche fliers expect you to be when you finish your loop.

  21. I guess it will be a long time before you boys see France," said Mr. Fox.

  22. There, ahead, were still the captive balloons, straining at their leashes probably, but too far away to show anything but the general outline of their odd sausage shapes.

  23. There were several types for the fliers to use, single-seaters, the big bombing craft, those equipped for slow flying and from which photographs were to be taken, as well as others.

  24. Their places were taken by others who were sent for, some being new fliers who were burning to make a name for themselves.

  25. And this would be guarded against both by the French fliers themselves and by a battery of the newest type of anti-aircraft gun.

  26. The fliers were now well over the German lines, and the batteries from below began firing at them.

  27. By their searchlights, aided by those on the surface, these fliers endeavor to pick up the German machine, and, too, they endeavor to get near enough to attack it.

  28. But the menacing force-pistols of the other frog-guards held back the shouting men and in moments the two fliers were overpowered by sheer weight of frog-bodies.

  29. The two fliers flung themselves back in a floating leap toward the reeds, but the green monsters were quick after them.

  30. Before the two fliers could comprehend their purpose, could do aught more than draw instinctive great breaths in preparation, the two craft had shot down into the waters and were arrowing down through the green depths.

  31. But out of the hundreds of fliers who have gone up to those immense heights, four have never come down nor been seen again!

  32. They were men such as the two fliers had never seen before, like humans except that their skins were a light green instead of the normal white and pink.

  33. The two fliers at Sweden and Lower California vanished within three hours of each other, on opposite sides of the Earth.

  34. The two fliers crouched down near the door, shuddering nausea and weakness still holding them.

  35. You know that since the new X-type planes were introduced, hundreds of fliers all over Earth have been trying for altitude records in them.

  36. They made some attempt to defend the streets of the town of Hamilton; but, while labouring to induce the fliers to face about and stand to their weapons.

  37. He did not try to persuade the Scotch to peace by the same methods which he had used in the case of the High-fliers and Tackers.

  38. Defoe had always said that the High-fliers would use violence to their opponents if they had the power, and here was a confirmation of his opinion on which he did not fail to insist.

  39. The stricken corsairs were compelled to disgorge their accumulations of plunder, give up all their fliers and armament, and above all, the import of metals was forbidden them.

  40. That is, until an armada of Earth space-fliers had broken their power in one great battle.

  41. Everyone of the fliers was equipped with apparatus that could have raised the entire solar system with a call for help, and yet not the tiniest whisper was heard.

  42. These birds are the most wonderful fliers in the world.

  43. These big terns are swifter and better fliers than the gulls, and the depredations take place all the time before their eyes.

  44. Not the most reassuring thought in the world, that French fliers had marked this place for destruction.

  45. Because they are men of air as well as of earth, have these soldier-fliers strange powers?

  46. To the boots of the fliers were fastened small stout cords from two to four rods long, on the other end of which was fastened a small bush.

  47. It's a dare, all right, and I wonder if any of these Belgian fliers will take him up.

  48. These fliers don't go circling around just to spy on the enemy.

  49. White fliers smiting the rock, and black fliers burying themselves in sand!

  50. My four bombing fliers supplied an adequate diversion for the Municipal Patrol, didn't they?

  51. Luckily he remembered that while under fire combat fliers do not make use of their automatic pilots except as a last resort, for these devices cannot direct the complex movements necessary in dodging enemy bullets.

  52. In wondering silence the American fliers watched their enemies disappear around the bend, heading out to sea.

  53. Illustration: The Fliers Piled into the Army Trucks] Young Navy fliers of the carrier’s own company came forward to greet the Army men and conduct them to their mess.

  54. The fliers piled in, and the vehicles roared away toward the docks.

  55. The sons of Nippon won’t be using their little mountain playground as long as our fliers can keep an eye on it.

  56. The fire made a beacon that marked the spot from miles around, and the Night-Fliers had nothing to do but steer straight for it to find their target.

  57. It was on these machines that most of the Night-Fliers concentrated.

  58. The low-fliers were too close down for there to be any possibility of their not knowing well what they were shooting and bombing.

  59. Many of them may have pinned great faith in the ability of their aircraft to out-maneuver any similar fliers manipulated by the pilots of the Allies.

  60. They learned that we'd met with that accident," Billy went on to say hurriedly, "and as soon as they could get one of their fliers busy it was started out to look for the van carrying our seaplane.

  61. He labored under the fond delusion that he was thus doing his part in keeping the fliers at a respectable distance, which amounted to something after all.

  62. The atmosphere-fliers of Kandar swung in a gigantic, ballooning circle about the spot where they had dropped a good fraction of a ton of bombs to the square yard.

  63. The arrival of new fliers from America made it necessary to instruct them, and to this Tom, Jack and other veterans were detailed.

  64. Five German fliers is the price of Harry Leroy, who was worth a hundred of them!

  65. One of our fliers coming bark," remarked Tom in a low voice.

  66. Torn and Jack were, in point of service, the ranking American fliers for a time.

  67. The air conflicts, too, had been desperate, and many a brave man of the French, English or American fliers had met his death.

  68. But the French and some English fliers who were acting with them, laid a sort of trap, which, in a way, aided the two Americans.

  69. They were assigned to barracks, and found themselves among some other airmen, many of whom were student fliers from the various aviation camps of the United States.

  70. To these the Huns at once turned their attention, and then the Spads swooped down, and there was a sharp engagement in the air, which ultimately resulted in victory for the Allied forces, though two of the French fliers were wounded.

  71. Soon Billie concluded that the two fliers were bound for the bottom of some unusually wide and exceptionally deep canon.

  72. He saw one or two fliers preparing to pursue, but he knew that the cruiser would easily outstrip the best of them.

  73. The fliers were steadily approaching this, and all the time going deeper and deeper.

  74. In May, 1917, I and seventeen other Canadian fliers left for England on the Megantic, where we were to qualify for service in France.

  75. I soon found out that my squadron was some hot squadron, our fliers being almost always assigned to special-duty work, such as shooting up trenches at a height of fifty feet from the ground!

  76. While I was there I turned over to them the message I had written in the hospital and asked them to have one of their fliers drop it on our side of the line.

  77. I want to say right here that Camp Borden has turned out some of the best fliers that have ever gone to France.

  78. Don't worry," said the general, "the fliers rarely bomb us.

  79. While we watched the bombardment a squadron of English fliers passed overhead.

  80. It was the activity and daring of the French fliers upon these high speed machines which induced the German airmen to change their tactics.

  81. Upon occasions this wastage has been so pronounced that the French aviators, including some of the foremost fliers serving with the forces, have been without a machine and have been compelled to wait their turn.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fliers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.