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

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

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

As Wildenai had promised they discovered, poised high among the crags of the wild southern shore, the great eagles of which she had told him, measuring easily, from wing-tip to wing-tip, fully a dozen feet.

From Their Mariposa Legend; a romance of Santa Catalina by Herr, Charlotte B. (Charlotte Bronte)

Turning the wing-tip nut on the top of the scarificator lowered, by means of a yoke, the bottom of the scarificator that was fitted by grooves into the top.

From Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Appel, Toby