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)

But there came no answer, and mounting to the wing-tip, Joan following, Jim saw a sight that froze him with horror.

From Spawn of the Comet by Rich, H. Thompson (Harold Thompson)

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