Sentence examples for great flight from inspiring English sources

It wasn't a great flight.

"Great flight, Bob," she told the pilot, stretching her arms.

"The other evening a great flight of geese passed by my window in the half dark.

You're walking around on a cloud when you have a great flight.

"It's like we had a great flight, but the airports at either end were awful," one patient said.

Lindbergh's tragedy is that he came to believe, as a conservationist, that it would have been better for the world if his great flight had never happened.

"We've had commanders who had plenty of personal angst in their lives, and they flew great flights," Mr. Hale said.

It's as if Beethoven had stripped a whole symphony down to a handful of notes, each deployed in a way that evokes great flights of composition.

The something-for-everyone ethos hardly lends itself to great flights of fancy, but the execution provides far more pleasant surprises than ugly ones.

Other great flights of the period included French aeronaut François Arban's September 1849 flight across the Alps and John Wise's 1,300-km (800-mile) flight from St .Louis, Missouri, to Henderson, New York.

On the road up Mount Tai in China there are many great flights of ancient granite steps; the earliest staircases seem to have been built with walls on both sides, as in Egyptian pylons that date from the 2nd millennium bc.