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

A good deal of vibration and of shuddering whipped the wing-tip, too; all was different, here, from the calm warmth, comfort, and security of the fuselage.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan

If a swallow's wing-tip flicked the surface, sending down a bright little jet of bubbles, these bubbles also would double themselves in reflections as they darted up again and vanished in the mirroring ripples.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Already, owing to this cause, the monoplane was listing so that her starboard wing-tip was touching the water.

From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)