Sentence examples for flight standing from inspiring English sources

So there I am, after a night in an airport motel and a brief interisland flight, standing on the pier at Nawiliwili, Kauai, watching the Independence maneuver slowly into its first port of call.

They never stopped futzing for the whole flight, standing to daven, taking their hats off, smoothing them with lint removers, placing them back in their boxes, taking their coats on and off, arguing, studying Talmud from great codices and pocket paperbacks, a nodding derangement of velvet black discs pitching and yawing and then popping up and down like Whac-a-Mole antagonists.

On a recent Virgin Atlantic flight from Heathrow to San Francisco, six passengers spent most of the flight standing in the aisle in the rear of the plane near the lavatories.

A co-owner of the beloved Tartine Bakery in San Francisco's Mission District (I've almost missed flights standing in line for croque monsieur and bread pudding), Robertson shares a recipe for basic country bread that's worth attempting.

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Tumiri said others on the flight were standing and yelling as the plane crashed.

THE BUZZ -- The play opened with actors portraying flight attendants standing in front of a set of a cockpit and issuing the standard safety instructions.

Whether it was checking in at Gatwick, on my 10 hour flight, or standing in the two hour immigration line at Las Vegas's woefully inefficient McCarran airport, I found myself on the end of a series of pitches.

Throughout the event, every mot juste was met with gestures of delight and approval; choice metaphors provoked eager roars; an extended rhetorical flight demanded standing ovations.

The advertisement announcing her candidacy featured her in her flight jacket standing in front of an F-4 Phantom II fighter jet captured the imagination of both the public.

Zulfikar, a public relations consultant from Jakarta, had practiced the words he was about to say in the mirror on the flight over, standing in the airplane's cramped bathroom and mouthing the simple phrase that could change everything.