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Example Sentences
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The pilot episode of “The X-Files” spinoff “The Lone Gunmen,” featured a pilot who hijacks an airplane and flies it into the World Trade Center six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Through the 1990s and well into the new century, the author flies in and out of China without difficulty to visit her aging mother, who stayed behind in Chengdu.
First a dung cart rolled down the block, pulled by a scrawny brown horse that kept twitching its muscles to shoo the flies off its back.
From Literature
He said he flies a helicopter three days a week and a plane five, with a preference for his collection of vintage World War II aircraft.
The drone flies the package to its destination and then lowers the cord with the box attached to drop off the order into a customer’s yard.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
