WING in a Sentence

Learn WING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
263 example sentences for WING, such as:
1. Time is a bird for ever on the wing.
2. The plane's wing was damaged on impact.
3. He cemented the wing to the model airplane.
4. We enlarged the house by adding a west wing.
5. The stables adjoin the west wing of the house.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WING
wing
 n.  the side of military or naval formation
 n.  a unit of military aircraft
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As he spoke, we turned down a narrow lane and passed through a small side-door, which opened into a wing of the great hospital.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  A bird's wing, comrades," he said, "is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  For by some lucky chance a wall had been built continuing the house, it might be with the intention of adding another wing, on the raised ground in the sun.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
4  Six windows on this side of the door, six on that side; a total of twelve in this wing, a total of twelve in the other wing; four-and-twenty carried over to the back wings.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
5  Nothing," said the Jewess; "all about him is black as the wing of the night raven.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  Mellors stood rather tall and thin, worn-looking, gazing with flickering detachment that was something like the dancing of a moth on the wing, at the pictures.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  The manor-house is, as I have already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
8  The bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms being in the central block of the buildings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
9  Now, on the other side of this narrow wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
10  They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
11  There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited at all.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
12  My own was in the same wing as Baskerville's and almost next door to it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
13  One is the scullery-maid, who sleeps in the other wing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
14  Softly we stole along until we had come into the other wing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
15  Right wing three-quarter missing, indispensable to-morrow.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  The body has no colourful feng sf wing, mind ACTS upon mind.
2  The stables adjoin the west wing of the house.
3  We enlarged the house by adding a west wing.
4  The views of the left wing have tended to predominate within the party.
5  Time is a bird for ever on the wing.
6  The butterfly is black and white with a blue stripe running down each wing.
7  The entire east wing of the building was demolished in the fire.
8  Several times from wing to a desk at center stage he glanced out at the audience to acknowledge the applause.
9  The president is on the left/right wing of the Democratic party.
10  Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
11  The plane's wing was damaged on impact.
12  The left wing,having deployed into line,began to advance.
13  He cemented the wing to the model airplane.
14  Religious fanatics have formed an unholy alliance with right wing groups.
15  During the last decade the right wing of the party has held the whip hand.