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Example sentences for "flyer"

Lexicographically close words:
fluxions; fly; flycatcher; flycatchers; flye; flyers; flyes; flyeth; flyin; flying
  1. I said, "You crazy Indian, do you think those people in the flyer are there to see a movie show?

  2. So's the flyer won't bunk her nose into us," he said.

  3. Shutting off the top blades the young flyer used the tractor prop to draw him to the place vacated by Garry.

  4. His eyes, watchful and narrowed, caught the instant at which the flyer ahead dropped his nose.

  5. But whether he climbed, at the same time moving forward, or not, the mail flyer could so adjust his next dive that it would sweep the helicopter's air with that deadly, upsetting propeller wash.

  6. And so was the mail flyer who came in tonight," Chick cried.

  7. The dive had sent the angry flyer down a steep dive, past the helicopter and up, again, in a climbing zoom, to a high point on which he turned to come again past the other aircraft.

  8. A mail flyer came to our place, while my father was away, and wasn't very easy to describe, because of his flying togs.

  9. If the flyer wanted to study that swamp--he'd do it from the air.

  10. Carefully, so as not to spoil Don's own air too much and thus do what the mail flyer sought to accomplish, yet making his attack as close as his inexperience told him was safe, Garry drove for the point where the other diving ship should come.

  11. The Grantline Flyer is too small for ore transportation.

  12. The chemistry of manufactured air, the pressure equalizers, renewers, respirators, the lighting and temperature maintenance of a space-flyer was here.

  13. Get your smartest passenger flyer out on the table, head it east, and when I send for it, rush it over to couple on to the Nadia--with Williams for engineer.

  14. The anxious query hinged itself upon the approach of a big, eight-wheeled passenger flyer which was thundering down the yard on the track occupied by the Nadia.

  15. After the start, when Ned and Tom, with Mr. Damon helping occasionally, had gotten the machinery into proper adjustment, the Flyer almost ran herself.

  16. There was not a man, woman or child in sight when the Flyer came down, for the inhabitants had all fled in fright.

  17. The airship was ready for a flight, stores and provisions had been put on board, there was enough gasoline for the motor, and gas for the balloon bag, to carry the Flyer thousands of miles.

  18. But we've got to take the Flyer apart, and pack up again.

  19. Then he sent some of the vapor from the generating machine into the gas bag, and the Flyer arose slightly.

  20. As I have explained the Flyer was a combined dirigible balloon and aeroplane.

  21. The propellers, which gave the forward motion to the airship, had been stopped when it was found that the wind was carrying her along, but they were now put in motion again, sending the Flyer forward.

  22. It was rather hard work to take the Flyer apart, but it was finally done, and, in about a week from the time of arriving in Paris, they left that beautiful city.

  23. The Flyer was now out of danger, going along high in the air through the night, while the gale raged below her.

  24. Then the Flyer ascended on high, leaving the plotters and started back for the fire, of which Tom got a series of fine moving pictures.

  25. In due time, and without anything out of the ordinary happening the Flyer reached Shopton, where Tom found a warm welcome awaiting him, not only from his father, but from a certain young lady, whose name I do not need to mention.

  26. We've got plenty of gasolene, and the Flyer can certainly go," said Tom.

  27. The camera was started while, safe in the a those on the Flyer watched what went on below them.

  28. The balloon of the Flyer was now being distended.

  29. And there's no better or steadier flyer than King George, first foal to my mare Majesty.

  30. If I didn't have twenty thousand coming from El Paso on the Flyer to-night I'd be uneasy for the bank.

  31. They had decided that the robbery would probably take place at the depot, so that the outlaws could get the agent to stop the Flyer without arousing suspicion.

  32. Luck saw to it that Curly got all the credit of frustrating the outlaws in their attempt on the Flyer and of capturing them afterward.

  33. The only signal they needed was the stopping of the Flyer at Tin Cup.

  34. After this the plans for the raid on the Texas, Arizona & Pacific Flyer moved swiftly to a head.

  35. As he slid under the steering gear, he determined to keep his eyes and his mind out of the sky, and to concentrate all energies on navigating the Western Flyer safe into her garage by dawning.

  36. With doom upon him, the young flyer slid into the cockpit of the squat, heavy plane.

  37. And all in an instant, the exhaustion of air-starvation had claimed the flyer as its victim.

  38. Other messages swept through the air from a far-out fishing fleet where the lone flyer crossed human sea trails again.

  39. The Western Flyer flung some piece of its anatomy to the winds on at least every other trip.

  40. As though lifted on the shouts of the onlookers, the lone flyer in his Wind Bird took the air and went up, up into the heights.

  41. The flyer completed examination by electric torch of landing-gear, engine, wings, Hal's last improvised piece of patchwork that was hardening miraculously under its spread of tire glue.

  42. For the second flight, loaded with all the weight that an ocean flyer needs must bear, the Wind Bird labored somewhat in the rise, found her speed more slowly.

  43. A ship that had glimpsed a flyer going up coast had radioed word back.

  44. The young flyer had been so engrossed in blind flying to a perfect landing by instruments alone, that it came as a shock to him to look out of his machine's window and see the huge crowd that awaited him on this Oriental landing field.

  45. All Japan breathes a welcome to the great flyer of the skies" were the headlines of a newspaper.

  46. The Colonel was not only a builder of planes, but also a flyer of some note.

  47. The Colonel pleaded for this young flyer whom he had come to love as his own kin to stay on in America, to put his talents to work for aviation safety, not for aviation madness of ocean flights.

  48. You've got the nerve, you sound sporting," the flyer whirled and looked him straight up and down.

  49. If all parts are properly balanced and adjusted, the flyer should go "way up high.

  50. Wind about a yard of string around the spool in the proper direction, and then set the flyer spinning by pulling the string quickly off the spool.

  51. They worked with care and yet with an eagerness that no boy ever displays when setting his home-made or store flyer to the breeze.

  52. If, for any reason, the fastest train is late, all others that might be in the way must wait till the flyer has passed.

  53. The entire flyer shell could be revolved about the axis so that oblique motion with our bow and stern motors was readily possible.

  54. He jumped to the control levers of the flyer and pulled the starting switch well forward.

  55. It took Jim only a moment to shoot the flyer up into space, and the charge passed harmlessly beneath us.

  56. The feeler wrapped itself around the flyer and we were lifted into the air toward those horrible eyes.

  57. When Hadley later constructed his space flyer and proposed to visit the moon, it was Jim Carpenter who ridiculed the idea of the attempt being successful.

  58. Careful observations were continuously made of the position of his flyer and it was found that it was gradually returning toward the earth.

  59. Then Jim stopped the flyer and turned back.

  60. Over and around the flyer the feeler went, while green and red colors played over first one and then another of the huge eyes before us.

  61. Jim moved the controls again and the flyer came to a stop.

  62. Should it close, however, it would take only a couple of hours to open it again to allow the space flyer to return.

  63. No other press man has the slightest inkling of my plan and even if they had, there isn't another space flyer in the world that I know of.

  64. The friction of the flyer against the air had so far made up for the decreasing temperature of the air surrounding us, but a glance at the outside thermometer warned me that his suggestion was a wise one.

  65. It raged with uninterrupted fury and I felt certain of our escape when, with a shock which hurled both Jim and me to the ceiling, the flyer stopped.

  66. Carpenter stepped back to the controls of the flyer and stopped our movement; we hung in space, watching them.

  67. The flyer proved to be of the same general type as had been used by Hadley.

  68. In five minutes every man and woman in the flyer were crowded into the car with Walter Ferrell and Dauna.

  69. The field manager took charge of the situation and they lifted the injured flyer down from the mail cockpit.

  70. The mail flyer was still unconscious when they placed him on the makeshift stretcher but he was made comfortable with an abundance of blankets.

  71. Then the reporter boosted the flyer into the mail cockpit and prepared for the take-off.

  72. The flyer was sent in to town for treatment at a hospital and Tim and Ralph accompanied the managing editor to the News office.

  73. Ralph, his eyes burning in his smoke-blackened face, was looking back at Tim, trusting that the young flyer would be able to pull the Good News out of the tailspin.

  74. The mail flyer reached up and took the wheel, untying the rope to which it had been fastened.

  75. When they let the stretcher down, they heard the injured flyer groan.

  76. He made the mail flyer as comfortable as possible, warmed the lunch he had brought with him and they both enjoyed the meal, the first Mitchell had eaten in twenty-four hours.

  77. The owner of the Circle Four, who professed to have a slight knowledge of physical ailments, went over the injured flyer carefully.

  78. The steps were more uneven and once or twice the air mail flyer had stopped beside some tree to rest.

  79. The reporter and the mail flyer sat up and talked for the remainder of the night.

  80. The reporter returned and helped support the mail flyer as they started the slow and painful journey to the plane which was to be their means of escape.

  81. Ralph massaged the swollen ankle until the pain had eased and the mail flyer fell asleep.

  82. The afternoon wore on and Ralph's hopes of finding the missing flyer that day lessened.

  83. In the brief second before they leaped, Ralph threw his body across Mitchell to shield the injured flyer from the savage onslaught.

  84. The storm struck so quickly I didn't have a chance to escape," said the air mail flyer as Ralph worked over the twisted ankle.

  85. At sixteen Terry not only was an expert flyer but was a good mechanic as well.

  86. You’ll be trying to make a flyer out of her.

  87. We’ll make a flyer of her, too,” declared Dick, not wanting to be partial.

  88. Arnold’s a good flyer and all he needs is more room out there.

  89. A flyer who had piloted a plane through the sky, had shot up above the clouds and been alone in the heavens, would never be happy in a wheel chair.

  90. He was an old-time flyer himself, and understood aeroplane construction pretty well, and he made a very decent landing not very far from our front lines.

  91. There is not one of them who is not hoping one day to be a flyer at the front, and they have waited for the starting of flying at the new grounds with the greatest expectations.

  92. I heard a French flyer say the other day that the Spad biplane was faster than this machine, but I don't believe it.

  93. On rainy Sundays old switchmen in the Zanesville yards still tell in their shanties of the night the Blackwood bridge went out and Cameron's stock-train got away on the hill, with the Denver flyer caught at the foot like a rat in a trap.

  94. The East-bound Flyer was on time, or nearly so, and when I got into the cab for the run back, Foley was just coupling on.

  95. Next evening the strikers, through some mysterious channel, got word that the Flyer was expected.

  96. Half an hour after the flyer left, 77, the fast stock-freight, wound like a great snake around the bluff, after it.

  97. Yes, Georgie, his boy, was on the Flyer No.

  98. Less than a week afterwards a gentle little old woman stepped off the Flyer at Zanesville, and into the arms of Georgie Sinclair.

  99. When the flyer pulled in from the West in the afternoon it carried two extra sleepers.

  100. Through the driving storm the tail-lights of the flyer were presently seen.

  101. His boy, Georgie Sinclair, the kid engineer, took the run on the Flyer opposite Foley, just as soon as he got well.

  102. The conductor of the flyer ran up to Ben in a panic.

  103. Neighbor brought the Flyer in from the East.

  104. You'd be a queer flyer if you didn't want to test your knowledge.

  105. My career as a flyer has only just begun!

  106. Sam Hunter--the best salesman, the most experienced flyer of their company!

  107. He is president of a company which is manufacturing the Coey Flyer in Chicago.

  108. The train reported--he took it as a special miracle wrought in his behalf that the Flyer was for this once abreast of her schedule--he fell to tramping up and down the long platform, deep in anticipative prefigurings.

  109. In a few minutes he was back again, holding an excited conference with the chauffeur of the Inn automobile, who was waiting to see if the Flyer should bring him any fares for the hotel.

  110. He came out red in the face, jumped on his engine, and yanked the Flyer down the yards forty miles an hour.

  111. That would be the Flyer east at six o'clock.

  112. Terry's success as a flyer was due to the fact that the girl understood her plane thoroughly and treated it with respect.

  113. They could pick out the landing fields and see the position of the great beacons that would flash at night to guide the flyer to the hangars on the ground.

  114. There was another flyer who stood around admiring it and asking who you were.

  115. In the first place, the Chicago flyer is not driven by one but by many engineers.

  116. The average New Yorker who rides to Chicago in twenty hours on the World's Fair flyer does an easy day's work, in fact, does no work at all.

  117. They do not even take the opposite-bound flyer back over their stretch, but return with their engines to their respective starting-points, drawing slower trains.

  118. No one has ever made the experiment with the Chicago flyer or the Empire State express, but unquestionably it would take at least a thousand feet of track to stop either of them, and many things can happen in a thousand feet.

  119. Thus, seven strong men do two days' work every time the flyer runs from New York to Chicago, and seven other men do two days' work every time it runs back.

  120. He still had two dollars left from the flyer in cats, and the authorities had apparently relaxed their efforts to get him.


  121. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flyer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    flyer; insert; leaflet; pamphlet; promotion; publication