Sentence examples for a flying visit from inspiring English sources

"a flying visit" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means a quick or brief visit that is done hurriedly or unexpectedly. Example: I only had time for a flying visit to my parents' house before catching my flight.

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It's a flying visit too.

Clearly it was time for a flying visit to Berlin.

Khan's homecoming turned out to be little more than a flying visit.

No doubt much of the fault was ours; it was, after all, just a flying visit.

We caught two bands last night, which isn't bad going for such a flying visit.

And, this week, Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state, paid a flying visit to the two capitals.

Meanwhile, the Barbican has had a flying visit from Hamlet, as envisaged by the diehard avant-gardist Thomas Ostermeier.

All eyes are now on a flying visit Europe's economics chief Pierre Moscovici will make to Athens on Wednesday.

Essie Davis is back in Australia from the UK for a flying visit to attend the Logies awards.

No one wants to make a flying visit to Oz, so find free accommodation to stay longer.

And there was a little help from above with a flying visit from John Middleton, aka Emmerdale Vicar Ashley.

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