flown

Example Sentences

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His son was among 110 hostages flown home in January, on a plane organised by the Iraqi government.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

The EU said it had flown in 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid Sunday -- including medicine, tents and protective gear to fight the haemorrhagic fever -- to hard-to-reach Ituri province, the epicentre of the epidemic.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

Still, The New York Times might have flown a bit too close to the sun with one particular opinion piece published last weekend.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

Enterprise, meanwhile, was flown on those custom airplanes to John F. Kennedy International Airport and then traveled by barge to Manhattan’s Intrepid Museum in 2012.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

“Ay! There’s some of the birds flown from the cages. The guns have been going since dark, about. You’ll hear one presently.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens