Thesaurus / winged
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
In 2012, the same team of researchers speculated in Ichnos that the bipedal Haman tracks might have been made by pterosaurs, winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs.
FOSSIL FOOTPRINTS SHOW SOME CROCODILE ANCESTORS WALKED ON TWO LEGSCAROLYN GRAMLINGJUNE 12, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
There was a great deal of heart-burning, and the camp was the prey of winged rumours, most of them discouraging ones.
A PRISONER IN TURKEYJOHN STILL
The three slabs to the right of the winged lions on entering, were occupied by a highly curious representation of a battle.
DISCOVERIES AMONG THE RUINS OF NINEVEH AND BABYLONAUSTEN H. LAYARD
And when the third seal was broken, another of the winged animals bellowed like a thunder clap, "Come and see!"
THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSEVICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ
Though he were winged and swift of flight, the unwary one who approaches the ambush is lost.
THE LIFE OF THE SPIDERJ. HENRI FABRE
The air was filled with winged seeds, sailing away off here and away off there, and going I do not know where.
THE PUDDLEFORD PAPERS,H. H. RILEY
Every one is acquainted with this little bird; lively, pert, and cunning, the true gamin of the winged race.
REPTILES AND BIRDSLOUIS FIGUIER
He looked up, to see Alice Frome, caught gloriously in the wind like a winged Victory.
THE VISION SPENDIDWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
Moist situations are most congenial, as among the plants that effect them it finds its winged food.
POACHERS AND POACHINGJOHN WATSON
The gods had turned to flies and the winged bulls had become like mice.
MYTHS OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIADONALD A. MACKENZIE
WORDS RELATED TO WINGED
- abrupt
- alacritous
- barrelling
- breakneck
- cracking
- double-quick
- expeditious
- express
- fleet
- fleet-footed
- flying
- hasty
- headlong
- hurried
- in nothing flat
- like crazy
- like mad
- nimble
- on the double
- precipitate
- prompt
- pronto
- quick
- rapid
- ready
- screaming
- shaking a leg
- short
- short-lived
- snappy
- spanking
- speedball
- speedy
- sudden
- supersonic
- unexpected
- winged
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.