flies
Example Sentences
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“The vast majority of travelers present acceptable identification like Real IDs and passports, but we must ensure everyone who flies is who they say they are.”
From Los Angeles Times
“It doesn’t know flies from hamburger. I guess it eats anything it can get hold of.”
From Literature
The pilot episode of “The X-Files” spinoff “The Lone Gunmen,” featured a pilot who hijacks an airplane and flies it into the World Trade Center six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Through the 1990s and well into the new century, the author flies in and out of China without difficulty to visit her aging mother, who stayed behind in Chengdu.
First a dung cart rolled down the block, pulled by a scrawny brown horse that kept twitching its muscles to shoo the flies off its back.
From Literature
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