Flown meaning

flōn
Flown is the past tense of fly, which is defined as when a person or thing moves through the air.

An example of flown is someone having taken a flight from New York to Los Angeles.

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Past participle of fly.
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Filled to excess.
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Far-flown, high-flown.

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Filled too full.
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Origin of flown

  • Obsolete past participle of flow
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Flown Sentence Examples

  • I've never flown before.

  • The birds had flown, and their empty nests in the bare trees were filled with snow.

  • Her little brown mate has flown away with the other birds; but Annie is not sad, for she likes to stay with me.

  • As she'd never even visited an airport much less flown, frequent traveler Betsy carefully told her the dos and don'ts while she printed her boarding pass.

  • Two of the enemy's shots had already flown across the bridge, where there was a crush.

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