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Example sentences for "long flight"

  • On no occasion did it make a long flight, but even when I scared it by throwing a stone into the hedge near it, it merely dropped to the ground, and in a minute or two was piping from another bush.

  • The reason probably is that the young are not at the former period sufficiently fledged to undertake a long flight, though they find no difficulty in swimming.

  • One night, when the moon was high and the air was cool and fragrant after the heat of the day, Jimbo felt a strong desire to get off by himself for a long flight.

  • The governess had once told him that a sort of open-air sleep sometimes came after a long flight.

  • I found Mary sitting on the lowest of a long flight of steps.

  • I strolled to the chapel, near the inn, a pretty white edifice, entered by a long flight of steps.

  • Mr. Fenwick wanted to know of the young inventor, who replied that, as soon as some further changes had been made, they would attempt a long flight.

  • He wants to make a long flight, and I can't blame him," spoke Tom, in a low voice.

  • A long flight of white marble steps leads up to the doors of the Cathedral and a spreading palm tree stands like a guard near the foot of the stairway.

  • We descended a long flight of steps to reach the level of the floor of the excavated temple, and passing the blue-uniformed guards entered the grand hall of columns.

  • So it was with relief that in the suburbs of the city, about half a mile from the Damascus gate, we descended a long flight of stone steps into the shade of an excavation in the rocks about twenty feet in depth.

  • After we left Mars Hill a few minutes' walk brought us to the foot of a long flight of ruined steps, at the top of which stood broken marble columns.

  • Can't we make a trial trip before we fit up the car ready for a long flight?

  • Of course particular attention had been paid to the ship proper, and every portion was gone over until Mr. Sharp was sure it was in shape for a long flight.

  • In the evening he puts in first a mounter and then a ringer, and then having with some difficulty and after a long flight killed a good mounter, is fed up just before it gets dark.

  • In finding a hawk after a long flight it is useful to bear in mind a few hints which experience has taught.

  • The half-fruits themselves are also so made that they are of exactly the right shape to take a long flight.

  • They generally stand on a hill, and are approached by an avenue or a long flight of steps, and the grounds are set out with trees, which are left to grow till they sometimes attain a majestic height and breadth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long flight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broad sense; irregular verbs; long black; long boiling; long chain; long cruise; long day; long duration; long hairs; long handle; long journey; long known; long last; long list; long range; long ride; long room; long since; long stretch; long voyage; long walk; longer able; longer required; molecular motion; she had always been; slightly bitter