flying
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Synonyms & Antonyms for flying
Synonyms: Adjective
cursory, drive-by, gadarene, hasty, headlong, helter-skelter, hurried, overhasty, pell-mell, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed
Synonyms: Noun
Antonyms: Adjective
deliberate, unhurried, unrushed
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Examples of flying in a Sentence
Adjective
a story about a flying car a flying attempt at finishing the workNoun
had never had the slightest fear of flying
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Now, after four decades, the MD-80 is being retired — and American will ferry the last 23 of its very identifiable flying objects to a desert parking lot in Roswell, N.M. — Los Angeles Times, "Newsletter: Living on the streets, dying on the streets," 5 Sep. 2019 In 2017, the New York Times and Politico revealed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which the Pentagon ran to study unidentified flying objects and unexplained phenomena. — Los Angeles Times, "Storming Area 51 started as a joke. But it’s a mystery as to how many will show up," 22 Aug. 2019 From building model planes as a youth until his passing, Armstrong carried a deep fascination with learning how flying machines worked. — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, "How Neil Armstrong earned the moon landing’s lead role: Apollo 11 at 50," 16 July 2019 And in 2017, The New York Times reported on a shadowy program at the Pentagon that has been investigating reports of unidentified flying objects for years. — Jacey Fortin, BostonGlobe.com, "‘Storm Area 51’ Facebook group is a million strong, but it’s a joke — kind of," 15 July 2019 Following the war’s conclusion, Friend acted as an operations officer in Korea and Vietnam; worked on early rocket programs; and led Project Blue Book, a classified Air Force study of unidentified flying objects. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, "Robert Friend, Tuskegee Airman Who Flew in 142 Combat Missions, Dies at 99," 26 June 2019 Fifty years later, in 1992, one of the P-38s was extracted from the ice and restored to flying condition: the infamous Glacier Girl. — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, "WWII P-38 Discovered Under 300 Feet of Ice in Greenland," 27 July 2018 That facility will include a mission control for experimentation on the International Space Station, a Dream Chaser simulator, and an indoor flight environment for drones and other flying vehicles without humans on board. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "SpaceX organizes inaugural conference to plan landings on Mars," 6 Aug. 2018 The swarms of low-cost, disposable flying objects could perform tasks that no single spacecraft can do on its own. — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, "The Tiny Satellites That Might Fly to Another Solar System," 18 Oct. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Our job is to build the kind of company that passes that scrutiny with flying colors.’’ The FTC declined to comment. — BostonGlobe.com, "Amazon probed by US antitrust officials over marketplace - The Boston Globe," 12 Sep. 2019 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is to participate via videoconference due to medical restrictions against flying. — Washington Post, "South America leaders gather to discuss protection of Amazon," 6 Sep. 2019 Look for free lessons in kite flying and kite making, too. — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, "10 awesome Bay Area adventures for that mid-summer bucket list," 7 July 2019 But that is fuel and flying hours that would have otherwise been spent solely on training. — CBS News, "White House and Pentagon won't disclose cost of Trump's July 4th event," 4 July 2019 The study showed that hurricanes decrease the populations of flying insects, so there is less available food for spiders, Jonathan Pruitt, the research chair at McMaster University and study lead author told USA TODAY. — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, "Hurricanes are making spiders more aggressive: It's rapid evolution at work, study says," 20 Aug. 2019 But because the units were built with cheap building materials and endured production troubles in Finland, the homes (which bear a striking resemblance to the stereotypical flying-saucer UFOs from sci-fi) were never in demand. — Peter Dawson, Houston Chronicle, "Out-of-this-world houses that landed across Texas," 17 July 2019 The Iranians soon tore down the American flag flying over the lead boat. — Megan Rose, ProPublica, "Trump Keeps Talking About the Last Military Standoff With Iran — Here’s What Really Happened," 24 June 2019 The bar and lounge might be one of the coolest and most famous selling points of flying Emirates business class. — Alyssa Fiorentino, House Beautiful, "What It's Really Like To Fly Business Class With Emirates," 21 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'flying.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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