Sentence examples for flying umbrella from inspiring English sources

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Famously smashed through a glass table while attempting a Mary Poppins-style flying umbrella stunt.

There are space adventures, teenage drama – even a flying umbrella features in one book.

Arriving in London by flying umbrella, Mary Poppins proceeds to reform the dysfunctional banking family that employs her.

For many low income Americans, it's as out of the realm of possibilities as a nanny with a flying umbrella.

8. Harper and the Sea of Secrets by Cerrie Burnell and Laura Ellen Anderson Harper and her flying umbrella come to the rescue when the royal musicians have their instruments stolen.

More recently, an OK Go music video with more than forty million views offered a nearly four-minute master class in the world of Rube Goldberg machining; it involved a circuitous series of ramps, tunnels, wheels, and swinging objects that trigger a crashing piano, flying umbrellas, and other minor disasters, before finally firing paint in the band members' faces.

Minutes later, 32 women playing Mary Poppins descended on flying umbrellas, as the villains deflated and the actors resumed dancing.

I mean, she seriously flew, umbrella in hand, and all.

Flying umbrellas are not essential; instead, talent-spotters look for clipped tones, a degree from an ancient university (preferably Oxford or Cambridge) and a dash of English eccentricity—"not too much, though," reports one modern-day Mary, "they don't like outright weirdos".

Can the children solve the mystery with the help of the flying scarlet umbrella?