WINGS in a Sentence
Learn WINGS 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 WINGS, such as:
1. The bird flapped its wings furiously.
2. Don't fly till you wings are feathered.
3. The bird flapped its wings and flew away.
4. Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
5. A white bird fluttered its wings on the grass.
2. Don't fly till you wings are feathered.
3. The bird flapped its wings and flew away.
4. Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
5. A white bird fluttered its wings on the grass.
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Meanings and Examples of WINGS
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wings
n. the side of military or naval formation
n. a unit of military aircraft
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The clumps of trees in the snow seemed to draw together in ruffled lumps, like birds with their heads under their wings; and the sky, as it paled, rose higher, leaving the earth more alone.
2 But she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening her dimple and fluttering her bristly black lashes as swiftly as butterflies' wings.
3 With that kiss, everything she had intended to say in welcome took wings.
4 And if he'd kept on standing there, Sherman would have flanked him and crushed him between the two wings of his army.
5 It was white and strained and the black brows above slanting green eyes swooped up startlingly against the white skin like frightened bird's wings.
6 Above their heads a flock of chimney swallows whirled suddenly on swift wings and now and then a rabbit scurried startled across the road, his white tail bobbing like an eiderdown powder puff.
7 They're like fish out of water or cats with wings.
8 At the thought her spirits began to rise: it was characteristic of her that one trifling piece of good fortune should give wings to all her hopes.
9 As to the nature of Selden's growing kindness, Gerty would no more have dared to define it than she would have tried to learn a butterfly's colours by knocking the dust from its wings.
10 Yet Selden's manner at the Brys' had brought the flutter of wings so close that they seemed to be beating in her own heart.
11 It was at this point, perhaps, that a joy just trying its wings in Gerty's heart dropped to earth and lay still.
12 The expanse was relieved by clumps of oaks with patches of short wild grass; and every mile or two was a chain of cobalt slews, with the flicker of blackbirds' wings across them.
13 Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cotton-woods.
14 She darted into the women's dressing-room, roused Maud Dyer from her fainting panic, pushed her to the wings, and ordered the curtain up.
15 In her tranquillity she let the words blow by and heeded only the beating wings of his voice.
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1 No trace of wings in the air, but I have been over.
2 Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
3 No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
4 Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when your wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
5 If God had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings.
6 The bird flapped its wings and flew away.
7 The bird flapped its wings furiously.
8 A small bird flapped its wings furiously and flew upwards.
9 The wings of the bird still fluttered after it had been shot down.
10 With a rustle of wings the bird landed on the window ledge.
11 Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
12 A white bird fluttered its wings on the grass.
13 Everything is now for the future of dream weaving wings, soar to great heights to dream in reality.
14 Everybody can fly without wings when they hold on to their dreams.
15 Don't fly till you wings are feathered.