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wing - use in sentences
Preposition: like
- eagle: For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
Converse of object
- sprout: Many victims develop an unhealthy relationship to birds: they sprout wings, or cultivate other, less attractive avian characteristics.
- feather: My new toy is so close to an angel aside, the feathered wings.
- sweep: A possible extension of the method to the case of a flap on a swept wing is also included.
Adjective modifier
- left: Four parallel vertical grooves on bottom left wing; 3 parallel oblique grooves on right wing.
- rear: This is the rear wing in filler during a trial fit onto the body.
- east: He converted its east wing into a private museum for his collection.
- starboard: The object at the bottom left is the trailing edge of the starboard wing.
- west: The chapel, in the west wing, is plainly fitted up.
Modifies a noun
- chun: I always thought " Yes, this is why I like the wing chun system.
- feather: The wing feathers have rounded ends, whereas the other figure's wing feathers are open ended.
- span: THE GANNET is Britain's largest seabird with a wing span of just under two meters.
- mirror: You cannot assume, for example, that a fingerprint on an outside wing mirror is evidence of taking a motor vehicle.
- extremist: Still it's nice to have extreme stories and tales to exchange about global company's being secretly run by right wing extremists.
Noun used with modifier
- chicken: That advance was soon followed by " chicken wings " and the food to weight ratio reduced to previously unforeseen levels.
- opportunist: The opportunist wing of the old LSSP rebelled, leading to a de facto split.
- butterfly: They cross over at the ridge of the roof pitch to form canopies resembling butterfly wings.
- fairy: Yes, the fairy wings I brought were 3 inches big!
- angel: My neighbor tried the same thing and her 2 of her 10 geese developed angel wing.
- fore: Among day-flying Lepidoptera, the more gaudy colors are usually on the fore wings.
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