adjective
definition
Suspended in the flies.
example
flown scenery
verb
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To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
example
Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter.
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To flee, to escape (from).
example
Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
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To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
example
Birds fly their prey to their nest to feed it to their young.
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(of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
example
Let's see if that idea flies.
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To travel very fast, hasten.
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To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
example
a door flies open; a bomb flies apart
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To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
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To hunt with a hawk.
Examples of flown in a Sentence
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.
She called me a couple of days ago and told me she'd taken off and flown out to Colorado with the boy.
I've never flown before...either.
Two of the enemy's shots had already flown across the bridge, where there was a crush.
Both Nick and John were flown to a nearby hospital.
If they were with Brady, why hadn't he flown with them?
But he had flown to Arkansas on a plane with her.
The sheets were severed after printing, brought up by tapes, and carried down to a sheet flyer, which moved backwards and forwards, and the sheets were alternately " flown " into the hands of two boys seated opposite each other on either side of the flyers.
The college flag was flown earlier this week to celebrate the victory.
His brother, who has flown over from Prague to be with him, is keeping a vigil at his bedside.
British rookie Justin Wilson has already flown to America 's racing heartland in preparation for his fourth outing with Jaguar Racing.
Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake.
Sorties flown on June 9 were flown at maximum capacity.
Your baby's first year has probably flown by a lot quicker than you can believe.
Seafood is caught in the morning and shipped or flown to the restaurants, often on the same day.
Before then the flag, affectionately nicknamed the Red Duster, was flown by Royal Navy warships as far back as 1627.
We provide aluminum trussing, flown and ground supported rigging systems, theater drapes, star cloths, venue dressing and advertising banner rigging.
Flying cradle A metal framework which is attached around a speaker cabinet, allowing it to be safely flown.
Planes flown from the US bombed sugar mills, strafed trains and dropped incendiary devices and leaflets on Havana.
The top-of-line baby monitors have flown past simple sound features and now offer full live footage of your infant as he or she naps or frolics.
James Blunt's popularity with women has risen just as fast as his singles have flown up the Billboard chart.
Her dreams included a ceremony inspired by 19th century Mexican weddings held at the Bellagio hotel while surrounded by $150,000 dollars worth of flowers flown in from all over the world.
After being flown to Anchorage, Alaska for surgery and treatment, he was induced into a coma to try to relieve the swelling in his brain.
Often fairies would take their human victim back to their lands with them, for a week or a day - when the poor mortal was dropped back into human space, he would discover that years had flown and everyone he once knew was old or dead.
I was cast and flown up to Vancouver very quickly.
Many wasp and bee stings occur when sipping from an unattended soda can that the insect has flown into.
On his assurances the lords, expecting an amnesty, withdrew their guards from the palace and next day found that the bird had flown to the strong castle of Dunbar.
More than 2.4 m 2 of silica aerogel capture cells have been flown todate.
Two squadrons will be flown by RAF aircrew, with two flown by RN pilots.
The ensign is flown half-mast during the following times.
This coverage was further enhanced by having flown mid/high boxes and tall, narrow bass stacks.
I had a doctor flown in by helicopter a brain surgeon.
Flights, flown by BAe Jetstream pressurized turboprops, will operate twice daily, Monday to Friday, with one service on Sunday.
Recently unearthed records have shown that he might have actually flown a plane 50 years earlier.
In addition, many waterfowl will have flown to Britain to escape from even colder conditions in continental Europe.
Then the merchant told him how the eagle had flown away with his money.
While he seemed to have flown under the radar after the band split, he continued to have a career as an actor, appearing in My Big Fat Greek Wedding and the musicals Rent and Little Shop of Horrors.
The Six Flags Corporation, and the Six Flags logo, is intimately tied to Texas history and the six national flags that have flown over the state in the past five centuries.
The Six Flags park logo indeed has six flags, but they do not resemble the various national flags that have flown over Texas.
It also allows gamers to revisit classics from retro systems that either hold very dear places in their hearts or titles that may have even flown under the radar the first time around.
The top portion that goes around the IR end is bulbous and is designed to absorb most of the impact since remotes that have flown from hands had that end smack against TVs.
Again one of their young ones made a surprise appearance, being flown in from the rigging above the stage to 'steal' a diamond on a pedestal on the stage.
Seafood is flown in fresh and specials change daily.
Tree buyers camped outside a shopping center hours before dawn on Saturday to await a shipment of 130 noble firs flown in from Oregon.
It has just been reported that miniature fighter planes piloted by specially trained circus midgets, have flown several shorties against Iraq today.
Marks are made on hemp ropes with tape which correspond to a known height of a flown item.
Numerous reconnaissance sorties were flown over the Aegean to track enemy shipping.