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Flight in sentence

1138 examples of Flight in a sentence

We can see when he catches a train, which he's doing right now, when he stops, where he stays, when he goes, how he goes, how much time it takes him, when he is eating, when he is sleeping, like right now; when he takes a flight, who calls him, how long they speak, who sends him messages, what are the messages.
For example, imagine a passage from Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:" "The whole engagement lasted above twelve hours, till the graduate retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and the Surenas himself."
Leonardo da Vinci said, "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return."
Humanity will take flight and soar.
Type the name of the airline and the flight.
It shows you where the flight is, the gate, the terminal, how long until it lands.
I am known best for human-powered flight, but that was just one thing that got me going in the sort of things that I'm working in now.
And Brian Allen was able, in a miraculous flight, to get the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel, and we won the 100,000-pound, 200,000-dollar prize for that.
So this is now so successful that it is used in the initial phase of [unclear] the flight.
And in the end, you got so quick, that things like "Flight of the Bumblebee" were no problem, were they?
(Music: "Flight of the Bumblebee") (Applause) AO: Derek, let's have a bow.
DP: "Flight of the Bumblebee" on that note.
(Music: "Flight of the Bumblebee") AO: Or another one?
(Music: "Flight of the Bumblebee") AO: Fantastic.
So bumblebees are one of the few kinds of bees in the world that are able to hold onto the flower and vibrate it, and they do this by shaking their flight muscles at a frequency similar to the musical note C.
From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight.
And we went in, and right off the bat, our conversation really wasn't taking flight, but he was ordering a lot of food.
Since time immemorial, the law had said, you can't fly over the land without permission of the landowner, so this flight must stop.
The Supreme Court said the doctrine protecting land all the way to the sky has no place in the modern world, otherwise every transcontinental flight would subject the operator to countless trespass suits.
It was then I realized that I could also use an aerial drone to expand the worlds of bedridden people through flight, giving a sense of movement and control that is incredible.
And it's counterintuitive, but the cost of energy expended for the flight is only two cents of a dollar today, and we're just at the beginning of this.
And this, in turn, is pushing us towards zero unplanned downtime, which means there will be no more power outages, no more flight delays.
The aircraft, while in flight, will communicate with technicians on the ground.
However, if you take a look back and think about what have been the most empowering innovations that enabled us to build artificial machines that swim and artificial machines that [fly], you find that it was only through understanding the underlying physical mechanisms of swimming and flight that we were able to build these machines.
For one thing, and this is where I get excited, flight is about to get a lot more personal.
Well, electric flight and autonomy are changing that.
Electric flight, in particular, unlocks new possibilities for vehicle configurations that we just could not explore in the past.
In the past century, flight connected our planet, in the next, it will reconnect our local communities, and I hope it will reconnect us to each other.
PM: And yet I'm trying to imagine, Mark, what that was like, going off onto a mission, one presumes safely, but it's never a guarantee, and knowing that Gabby is — MK: Well not only was she still in the hospital, on the third day of that flight, literally while I was rendezvousing with the space station, and you've got two vehicles moving at 17,500 miles an hour, I'm actually flying it, looking out the window, a bunch of computers, Gabby was in brain surgery, literally at that time having the final surgery to replace the piece of skull that they took out on the day she was injured with a prosthetic, yeah, which is the whole side of her head.
PM: But there was a lot of conversation about something you did, Gabby, after Mark's flight.
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