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)
The waiting crowd streamed across to the machine from whose wing-tip flares, now dull and red, still dropped hot drops of liquid.
From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Bewsher, Paul
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)
