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dark flight
noun
The portion of the flight of a meteor, after its flaming fireball phase, when the space rock has cooled down and slowed down, so that it is no longer glowing, but still in flight, and yet to crash onto the ground
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Working late and drinking hard, Millay pitched down a dark flight of stairs and broke her neck.
Well there's something pretty creepy going on in this house, up that final dark flight of stairs.
In one of the large-format color prints, which measure four feet square, a soldier ascends a dark flight of stairs, armed with nothing more than a pair of textbooks held like a rifle.
With this information, the researchers determined that the meteor had an initial mass of 650 pounds and calculated the trajectory of the "dark flight" of the estimated 30 pounds of rock that remained after the fireball had burned out.
That's what happens when you watch a two foot tall plastic toy with dead eyes and nylon hair push an evil stepfather down a dark flight of stairs, saying, "I am Talking Tina, and I am going to kill you".
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I watched her stomp up two dark flights to her door.
At the top of two long, dark flights of steps was my yuen.
Carlton Brown from the 354th Civil Affairs Brigade, would heave a footlocker of cash -- more than $400,000 at the peak of the program -- up two dark flights of stairs that smelled of sewage.
In The Landing, a multilayered, metaphysical poem towards the end of the book, a man (a version, perhaps, of Orpheus, complete with lyre) finds himself halfway up a flight of stairs, poised in the "half-shade" between "the complex upper light" and "the darker flight / that fell back to the dead".
He was wearing a dark green flight suit that looked suspiciously like a janitor's uniform.
All $65 million of the new Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" took flight on Sunday night at its first preview performance, but not without bumps.
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