flight

Example Sentences

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The butterfly effect of American ingenuity is given full flight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The longest commercial flight currently in operation is a Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to New York, which covers 15,350 kilometres in over 18 hours.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Jeff Bezos’s space company now says it expects its New Glenn rocket to return to flight within six months, just days after a fiery setback.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

As adults, they use both flight and vision to search for a suitable host, most often deer, though they sometimes target humans and other mammals.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

Plans to send a man into space, a manned flight to the moon, weather satellites, and other very ambitious objectives, like understanding zero-gravity weightlessness, would all be part of NASA’s work.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson