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Example sentences for "short flight"

  • It is only a short flight farther to their winter homes on our southern coast.

  • Occasionally she would take a short flight about me and utter a note very similar to the rattling call of the pectoral sandpiper.

  • Only a short flight, I'll take her," he almost pleaded.

  • Once we're at Hendon, I'm sure Father can be coaxed to let us go up for just a short flight, though he thinks now that nothing could induce him to.

  • From where I stand I can look up a short flight of steps into the front room of the hospital, where there are a number of men moving about; among them one of the city undertakers.

  • Descending a short flight of stone steps, they came to another strong door, which Nightgall opened.

  • At the further end of the vault Cholmondeley discovered a short flight of steps, and mounting them unlocked a door, which admitted him to another narrow winding stone staircase.

  • Hastily shutting it, and barring it withinside, he mounted a short flight of steps leading to the roof, where he knew a sentinel who had charge of the alarm-bell was stationed.

  • At the east is a short flight of {191} stairs leading into an office reserved for the president of the Temple.

  • The Veil is approached by a short flight of steps from the floor of the room.

  • The passage terminates at the foot of a short flight of granite steps--at the centre of the north wall of the main structure.

  • From the waiting-room they went up a short flight of stairs into the small apartment in which Stuart saw his patients.

  • It was well that the artist within me had dictated this careful elaboration, as became evident a few minutes later when the doctor appeared at the head of a short flight of stairs and requested me to step up to his consulting-room.

  • There he found a short flight of steps, which he descended and came to a second corridor forming a right angle with the first.

  • He passed along the hall, glancing in each room as he went, until he came to a short flight of stairs leading toward the kitchen.

  • Then there was a short flight of stairs, and they stepped into a room, one of a suite.

  • XXV WE TWO Mr. Grimm turned from Pennsylvania Avenue into a cross street, walked along half a block or so, climbed a short flight of stairs and entered an office.

  • He went out of the room, and found Eva coming down the short flight of stairs from the upper floor.

  • It was reached by a short flight of stairs apart from the main staircase, and boasted a large casement window, built over the terrace below, and giving the river an air of proximity which always delighted Toni.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short 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:
    entre nous; female slaves; gentle lady; military band; national reputation; reddish yellow; short allowance; short and; short circuit; short circuits; short distance; short distances; short duration; short flight; short form; short intervals; short note; short order; short point; short range; short rations; short reign; short rest; short visit; shorten sail; thou great