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Example sentences for "winglets"

Lexicographically close words:
wing; winged; winges; winging; wingless; winglike; wings; wingtip; wink; winke
  1. Shelver cut off the winglets of a fly, leaving both wings and poisers, but it could no longer fly.

  2. Shelver's experiments, noticed in my last letter, go to prove, with respect to the insects that he examined, that the winglets are more particularly concerned with the buzzing.

  3. The winglets are small concavo-convex scales, of a stiff membranaceous substance, generally fringed at their extremity[550].

  4. Their winglets (Alulae) are different from those of Dytiscus marginalis, and the moth before noticed.

  5. Another observer states, that he cut off the winglets of a fly, leaving both its wings and poisers; but it could no longer fly.

  6. This is doubtful, because it has been found that after the winglets are cut away the humming sound is still produced; and some humming insects have no winglets.

  7. Since the winglets are the largest in the heaviest bodies, and are altogether wanting in the lightest, it appears probable that one of their principal uses is to assist the wings during flight.

  8. Y] Mr. Westwood says he has seen the poisers beat rapidly upon the winglets like drumsticks on a drum, and it has been supposed that this action is the cause of the hum made by the insect in flying.

  9. Come here with your colorless winglets to sweep The king of this brilliant parterre!

  10. I shut you in my crystal cup, To let your winglets rest.

  11. He gave prompt proof of his activity by scrambling madly for my plate, and fluttered down, with yellow winglets spread, exactly in the center of my slice of toast.

  12. But it was not until Robin's winglets were fairly grown that he seemed aware of the existence of trees.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "winglets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.