- past participle of fly.
flown
Example Sentences
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In the past, North Korean missiles have flown over Japan, triggering sirens, smartphone alerts and special programming on television.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“But they did not say he was somewhere he was not, and within hours officials revealed that he had been flown to a military facility in Nebraska.”
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
It has flown six generations of eVTOLs, or electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, the companies said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Wisk got its start as a joint venture between Boeing and Google co-founder Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk Corp. and has flown six generations of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Valentina Grizodubova, the pilot and politician who’d flown with Marina Raskova on their record-breaking trip in 1937, was about Marina's age.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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