upward flight
Example Sentences
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Its three Manhattan locations each require an upward flight of stairs.
From New York Times • May 5, 2022
The following month, a drone’s motor shut off as it switched from an upward flight path to flying straight ahead.
From The Verge • Apr. 11, 2022
Last July this upward flight of pianos was abruptly .terminated when the WPB stopped piano manufacture, turned U.S. piano factories into airplane parts plants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Could she trust it now, the hilarious freedom of the upward flight, the blind trust in the kindly grip of adult wrists, when the fifth person could so easily have been Robbie?
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
When a mighty blast occurs, or when steam escapes through the boiling mass, particles of pumice shred off in the upward flight, or are wire-drawn by winds that rage over the earth.
From Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Skinner, Charles M. (Charles Montgomery)
