Sentence examples for flyover from inspiring English sources

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flyover

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A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast

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"The Worli-Fort, JJ flyover and Mohammed Ali roads are, I guess, the best of the worst roads".

Nitin Gadkari, now transport minister in the BJP national administration, was the public works minister responsible for Mumbai during the late 1990s, when he became known as "Mr Flyover".

(Hopefully that's no omen for young Prince George's forthcoming visit: tens of thousands of expected spectators failed to turn up in the heat and dust, and the caterers had to bury truckloads of meat pies; a military flyover drowned out an unimpressed Dame Nellie Melba and one aircraft crashed before parliament, killing the pilot).

In those days, the Favela do Moinho was just a cluster of lean-tos beneath a flyover, with a single standing pipe from which water was collected in buckets.

But it shouldn't be: East India Youth's debut is the rain-soaked flyover between modern ambient and visceral techno, banging producer and mournful songwriter, frustration and elation, with driving kraut-pop songs that burst into glassy, brightly-lit instrumentals.

Like the Harry Potter books, Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" first became popular in a place on the fringes of Hollywood's consciousness: not Britain this time but America's own "flyover states".

Looking down from an airplane as it traverses the flyover states, you would be hard pressed to know whether you were crossing South Dakota or Goias, Mato Grosso or the corn belt.Perhaps Australia and Canada might say the same.

This is hardly the sort of place to fashion a moderate Democratic doctrine that can appeal to what San Franciscans refer to as America's "flyover territory".Ms Pelosi's defenders make two contradictory arguments on her behalf.

There is nothing the mayor enjoys more than to show the president around his newest bit of pavement or flyover, as if to rub in the contrast between mayoral can-do and federal drift.

She lives beneath a flyover, by a chaotic road junction in Old Delhi.

Half a century later, when one member of parliament suggested housing disruptive families in vandalism-proof steel containers tucked away "beneath the motorway flyover", the roadways' fall from grace was complete.Mr Moran tries hard to avoid taking sides, although the reader may suspect that his sympathies may lie more with the protesters than the road-builders.

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