pinions

Example Sentences

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Those presidents by and large left the architectural pinions of the institution intact.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2019

“I began to feel an invincible distaste for the same; & a longing to plume my pinions for a flight,” he explained.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

Creating life from pinions and pivots and tiny screws may be the easy part.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2016

Part of the original Longtail’s magic was in its extreme downforce, the phenomenon in which air pressure pinions the car to the tarmac, allowing for greater stability at high speeds.

From The Verge • Dec. 1, 2015

The vault of daybreak filled itself with heralds, and this is what they sang: You turning world, pouring beneath our pinions.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White