Sentence examples for kite about from inspiring English sources

NAGUIB CORY squatted on the sand, studying the fly lines attached to a red kite about 70 feet away, trying to figure out where they had gotten tangled.

And even though it is solidly bolted in place, it looks like a giant box kite about to snap its string and take off into the sky.

The narrator recalls a "vision" she first had when she was nine, of being pulled into the sky, "as if I were a kite about to be yanked up by a string attached just below my navel".

Mr. Lee unfurled the trainer kite, about 10 by 3 feet, allowing the leading edge to catch a breeze, and then, like a rocket, the crescent-shape kite launched with a zinging, snapping muffle.

And should you (or the little dears) ever get bored with kites, how about watching the remote-controlled mini-aircraft at the highest point of the Chilterns, or the paragliders on the Sussex Downs?

"I started kite surfing about two months ago, and to me it's about the greatest sport I have ever encountered," he continued.

Schnabel takes his words, and Harwood's pragmatic translation, then shoots everything with the controlled abandon of a red kite, zipping about the screen, swooping in and out of flashback and the present, fantasy and grim reality with beguiling pyrotechnics.

And a heavily armed kite is about the last thing in the world you want to start doing very close formation flying next to a plane filled to the brim with explosive fuel.

"Parents Hungry for A B C's Find Schools Don't Add Up" (front page, April 28) tells of parents opting for schools that teach their children about long division, not Kite Day, and about World War II in general, not solely the Holocaust.

"It's nice to have something to get excited about," said Kite, who is winless since 2006.

Mentions Surendra Bahadur, mentor of Indian-kite enthusiasts, about whom New Yorker article was written last year.