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kite

noun as in airplane

noun as in bounced check

Weak match

noun as in letter

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The plan was to utilize kites attached to their harnesses to help aid locomotion, effectively towing them across the frozen landscape.

The other interesting thing to know about this particular Thanksgiving is that I’m in love – dizzying, heart palpitating, feeling high as a kite love.

It was an odd-looking thing, essentially an oval kite, quite a bit longer than it was wide, and lacking—as birds did—a fin or rudder to keep it pointed in the right direction.

On most Saturdays and Sundays, we usually head up into the mountains, go for a hike, fly a kite, splash around in a stream maybe.

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A speeding racecar, a flying kite, a kid cruising along on rollerblades — they all have momentum.

Manned, unmanned, a balloon, a kite—you still have to get the information into the hands of the firefighters.

Maybe not good enough to fly a kite with my face on it through Central Park, but better.

He was a fairly well-known actor already—the star of The Kite Runner.

Founded in 2006 by some entrepreneurial kite surfers, Makani makes flying wind turbines.

The author of The Kite Runner picks his favorite short story collections.

It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!

These Eskimos were very fond of kite-flying, for its own sake, without reference to utility!

The third boat and kite had been damaged beyond repair, but the two left were sufficient.

It needed only an exertion of will for the soul to hurl the body ashore as wind drives paper; to waft it kite-fashion to the bank.

Being towed by Chets big kite had became a game that all hands wanted to try.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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