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Example sentences for "flights"

Lexicographically close words:
flieth; flight; flightiness; flighting; flightless; flighty; flimsiest; flimsiness; flimsy; flinch
  1. Rickety flights of outside stairs led to the upper stories of the buildings; overhead, lines of linen, hung out to dry, were flapping in the wind.

  2. I was submerged in the village, on the uneven, cobbled street, between old high walls and cavernous shops and the houses with flights of steps.

  3. Though gardens extended behind it, the house stood so near the pavement that only two short flights of steps intervened between the gate-posts and the portico.

  4. Down the three flights of stairs they went again, and across the central hall to a front room on the left that looked out upon the winter garden of evergreen trees.

  5. They went up three flights of stairs, to a small front room in the third story, with one window, looking west.

  6. With truly royal exclusiveness, the tyrant favors no community of interest, but sits in regal state on a conspicuous throne, and takes his grand flights alone or with his queen, but never with a flock of his kind.

  7. It stands high and is approached by long flights of steps up which the people are crowding for Vespers, to which the mellow tones of the old bells are summoning the faithful.

  8. This one climbs high and I must mount four flights of stairs to find the lavatories.

  9. A lofty bridge, crossed by two broad flights of stairs and tapering to a tower, stands at the intersection of the three chief Feria avenues.

  10. Behind her went the penitents, arduously climbing the long stone flights of that quadruple stairway upon their knees.

  11. Historians, you think," said Miss Tilney, "are not happy in their flights of fancy.

  12. He led her quickly past the back door of the saloon and up two narrow flights of stairs to the top of the building, drew from his pocket the key to a heavy padlock and slipped the crooked bolt from the double staples.

  13. It had never occurred to her in the wildest flights of fancy that she could meet and speak to a man under such conditions, to say nothing of the walk in the Park and the hours she spent in the little summer house.

  14. Overhead, but not too high, hawks skimmed the levels or tilted over knolls and hills in search of a quarry; larks gathered in flights for a final powwow before beginning the long trip southward.

  15. But spring came as is its wont; the great snowdrifts yielded to the demands of the sun and southern winds and the returning flights of birds heralded the change of seasons.

  16. Of course, Morgan's thought sometimes indulged in flights that had little relation to the workshop or to the processes of printing, but only within strict and narrow limits.

  17. Lately I have been making short low flights in a Bleriot, and enjoying it keenly.

  18. A few short flights in the Caudron gave me confidence that I could handle it; so one rather cloudy morning the officer told me to make my official altitude--which is merely one hour's stay at heights of over seven thousand feet.

  19. For a young pilot to bring one of these birds down in one of his first flights over the lines is a wonderful piece of luck and skill.

  20. Always the pilots were calling for more speed, removing or streamlining whatever sources of resistance they could, picking the time for cross-country flights when conditions were favorable.

  21. She mounted two flights more, and reached the door of the attic room, opened it and went in, shutting it behind her.

  22. Really it was hard for the child to climb the three long flights of stairs leading to her garret.

  23. At the request of the carnival committee, Mr. Sharp and Tom gave an exhibition of high and long flights the next day, and created no little astonishment by their daring feats.

  24. The exhibition opened the next day, but no flights were to be attempted until the day following.

  25. Best of all she loved soaring in dizzy flights all over the rigging, and hanging by her tail from the crosstrees to contemplate the sky and the ocean and the ways of man.

  26. Reuben had intended to offer a few not too classical flights concerning Aphrodite Anadyomene the sea-born, partly in the hope of learning whether love totally obliterated the sense of humor.

  27. We were allowed to pass very close to the sacred precincts, and saw a comfortable white European building, approached by flights of steps, and flanked by pretty gardens.

  28. She, too, had rare poetical talent, and in her Whittier found not only a helpful companion in the practical affairs of life, but one who sympathized with him in the highest flights of which his muse was capable.

  29. Nature teaches you this: The little bird at first takes but short flights to the nearest twig or tree.

  30. That vivid fancy of yours, my dear, takes strange flights sometimes," he said, quietly.

  31. Tell me about yourself," she commanded, when we were beyond the flights of terraced steps.

  32. Cadge and Kitty when we had half carried her up the long flights of stairs to the studio.

  33. In those flights of bliss the loved form of Lady Rosamond was ever near.

  34. Long neglected parks and straggling decayed mansions, afforded ample scope for the fanciful flights of her ladyship's fond imagination.


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