fly - use in sentences

Preposition: at

  • altitude: Very few aircraft can fly at altitudes high enough to experience this kind of radio disruption.

Object

  • flag: Sat proudly behind his Premier Union Jack drum kit flying the flag for the Sex Pistols Experience.
  • kite: I also do things like flying kites at Ashton Court, play cricket with all the family, go for walks along the coast.
  • sortie: The GR Mk 1A is capable of flying offensive sorties with a full range of external weapons.
  • overhead: A jet flying overhead could crash into my office.

Preposition: into

  • rage: Most people instantly feel betrayed and fly into a rage at the slightest criticism.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: The Bee flew around his head twice then disappeared into an old apple tree.

Modifies a noun

  • fisher: Harry Plunket Greene - opera singer, writer, fly fisher, bon viveur.
  • fishing: The organizing committee aims to give the Dutch or European way of fly fishing for pike a central place.
  • fisherman: Can there be a fly fisherman alive who has not heard of Where The Bright Waters Meet?
  • rod: Beside being a terrific small river fly rod, it can also be built as a useful shrimping and worming rod.
  • tipper: A derelict factory favored y vandals, vagrants and fly tippers has been blocked up following a blaze and an asbestos scare.
  • ash: Requirements for many different uses of fly ash are compared.

Noun used with modifier

  • warble: Sheep farmers, forced to dip sheep in organophosphates to control skin boring pests called warble fly, have suffered serious health problems.
  • carrot: Carrot root fly is the worst of these pests.

Preposition: in

  • ointment: Alas, there is one important fly in the ointment.

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