flying machine
Example Sentences
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Yet in some ways, Pivotal’s technology is even more audacious, in that it puts a human pilot—potentially a squirmy, Earth-hugging rookie like me—squarely into the control loop of a flying machine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Gannon-Doak is Scotland's flying machine, the man-child who was supposed to scare the wits out of the Greeks with his speed and his daring, and electrify Hampden with his personality.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025
Last year, that slot was occupied by the lean, mean flying machine “Plane,” starring Gerard Butler.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024
Even Orville and Wilbur Wright flipped a coin to see who got the lone seat on their flying machine.
From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2023
But though they called it the aeroplane, or sometimes the flying machine, Father and I always thought of it as Dragonwings.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
