wing-tip
Example Sentences
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Find a window seat with a nicely framed wing-tip view against soulful clouds.
From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2015
Their target won't be some old, slow tubs anchored at Battleship Row or 200 P-40s and Brewster Buffaloes at Clark and Hickam Fields lined up wing-tip to wing-tip in long straight rows.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2014
Aileron—A controlling surface, usually situated at the wing-tip, the operation of which turns an aeroplane about its longitudinal axis; causes an aeroplane to tilt sideways.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by Barber, H. (Horatio)
I felt a touch of fur and I gripped a struggling, skinny wing; there came a single nip of teeth, and the wing-tip slipped through my fingers.
From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William
He saw the silhouette of a hawk, wing-tip feathers spread, circling over the Illinois country across the river, hunting in the last moments before nightfall.
From Shaman by Shea, Robert
