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fly by
verb as in pass
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Kyle Ferris, fire behavior analyst with the Mountain Fire Incident Command Team, said embers traveled up to a mile ahead of the fire and would get into certain homes and fly by others.
“I love when we get to the end of a walk and I hear people say, ‘The time just flew by!’”
Residents living in the quarantine zones can help prevent the spread of the oriental fruit flies by not moving those crops from their property.
The hosts broke the deadlock in the bottom of the fifth inning as Enrique Hernandez, only the second Dodger to get on base by that stage, raced home on a sacrifice fly by Will Smith.
"It was fly by the seat of your pants, throwing water on to smoke and hoping for the best," says fire historian Dave Farries from the Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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