flying
moving swiftly
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,684 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,824 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- moving swiftly also: fast-flying fast-flying planesplayed the difficult passage with flying fingers
- hurried and brief also: quick, fast paid a flying visittook a flying glance at the book
noun
- an instance of traveling by air also: flight flying was still an exciting adventure for him
flying in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Come, O death, so silent flying IV.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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Sentences and scraps of sentences came flying at him from all over.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1
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Went up the cheering, the quick chanticleering; All hands vying—all colors flying: “Cock-a-doodle-doo!” and “Row, boys, row!”
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Soda-water corks are popping and flying about in every direction, like a miniature battery pointed against the assaults of the horrid enemy!
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1