wing-tip

Example Sentences

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Find a window seat with a nicely framed wing-tip view against soulful clouds.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2015

Their target won't be some old, slow tubs anchored at Battleship Row or 200 P-40s and Brewster Buffaloes at Clark and Hickam Fields lined up wing-tip to wing-tip in long straight rows.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2014

I felt a touch of fur and I gripped a struggling, skinny wing; there came a single nip of teeth, and the wing-tip slipped through my fingers.

From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William

Wash-out—A decreasing angle of incidence of a surface towards its wing-tip.

From The Aeroplane Speaks by Barber, H. (Horatio)

A rigid wing-tip buffeted him so sharply that he lost his hold on the ledge.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir