Word Finder - fly

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Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.

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(non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).

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Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.

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A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.

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A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)

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A witch's familiar.

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A parasite.

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The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys)

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(preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.

We can't naturally fly, so we make airplanes.

They let him fly back to Virginia.

You could fly down after work on Friday.

I have a feeling you're getting ready to fly the coop.

The band played "Fly Me to The Moon".

Tomorrow night we fly up north.

She'll drive Howie's car back to Boston and leave the car at the airport and fly out this evening.

My mother wouldn't hurt a fly.

I was there and really helped him fly the kites.

Fly down on Friday and we can put this whole thing in a file cabinet by the weekend.

My sister is supposed to fly into Fayetteville later today.

A fly lighted on the baby's cheek, and he brushed it away.

Even a bird is smart enough to push the fledgling out of the nest when it fails to fly on its own.

As they had no wings the strangers could not fly away, and if they jumped down from such a height they would surely be killed.

In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.

Maybe I should fly out and talk to Howie in person.

She knew better than to relax around her father, whose hand was likely to fly at the drop of a hat.

His shirt was untucked and Dean glanced at his fly, wondering if he'd been caught using a tree for a call of nature.

She turned her back to him, hoping he.d fly off in his pterodactyl form or disappear into the depths of the forest as a jaguar.

No, it would be best to fly out and then lease a car for a month.

So, if we had the wings, and could escape the Gargoyles, we might fly to that rock and be saved.

You do not know the relief of brushing away a fly that has bitten you, nor the delight of eating delicious food, nor the satisfaction of drawing a long breath of fresh, pure air.

He has given you wings with which to fly through the air.

It is most perplexing and exasperating that just at the moment when you need your memory and a nice sense of discrimination, these faculties take to themselves wings and fly away.

The bees circle round a queenless hive in the hot beams of the midday sun as gaily as around the living hives; from a distance it smells of honey like the others, and bees fly in and out in the same way.

In and out of the hive long black robber bees smeared with honey fly timidly and shiftily.

My parents, now residing in Florida, would attend the ceremony along with my older brother and his family who would fly in from Seattle, Oregon.

One chore remained before I'd do so though I was as nervous as a fly on a fry pan about it.

Surely he didn't expect her to hop on a plane and fly down there with him.

They want to know if you could fly down and back for a day.

The run was eight feet high and had a top, so they wouldn't fly out and nothing would get in.

Tomorrow they would fly back to Arkansas and for once she wasn't ready to go.

Surely he had heard the gravel fly when her car had stopped.

Tomorrow he would make arrangements to fly back to Arkansas and drive his car back.

Forced to fly to France, he there, at Lyons, in 1245, convened a council, which enforced his condemnation of the emperor.

In many genera of Lampyridae the female can fly as well as the male; among these are the South European "fireflies."

I wanted a bird to remind you of Bird Song, and that you're gonna fly back here real soon.

Was Fitzgerald's fly open when you saw him?

He'd been disappointed that she wasn't there when he woke or to fly with him to Tim's Montana home.

She asked if I thought Martha would fly out for the funeral or memorial service.

Randy had been told before school about the telephone call from Norfolk and she had dismissed his offer to fly down with her.

It would take her as long to drive to Fayetteville as it would for him to fly there from Tulsa.

The back of his skull buzzed harder until he wondered if his scalp was about to spin off and fly away.

After a while he found it necessary to fly from the Mahommedan court and join the main body of the English at Falta.

Many pretty little finches fly about the maize-fields and fruit-gardens, and a little green parakeet is met with as l;.igh as 12,000 ft.

If the Gargoyles can unhook the wings then the power to fly lies in the wings themselves, and not in the wooden bodies of the people who wear them.

Plus, we have powers formerly attributed to the ancient gods; we can fly, talk to people in other places, and see what is happening elsewhere.

He knelt on the ground and closed his eyes, seeking out the writhing darkness of his demon side.  If the demons had the power to transform and fly, he could access his demon powers, too, even if the Immortal side of him was bound by Death's underworld.     "Berries," Toby commanded the tree before him.

Under such conditions the pillar begins to yield, and fragments of mineral fly off with explosive violence, exactly as a specimen of rock will splinter under pressure in a testing machine.

The tip of the proboscis is armed with a complicated series of chitinous teeth and rasps, by means of which the fly is enabled to pierce the skin of its victim; as usual in Diptera the organ is closed on the upper side by the labrum, or upper lip, and contains the hypopharynx or common outlet of the paired salivary glands, which are situated in the abdomen.