Sentence examples for longed to fly from inspiring English sources

The Jumping People worshiped birds and longed to fly.

Mr. Glenn, a lieutenant colonel in the Marines and a pilot, had longed to fly his ship and not just go along as a passenger.

Yet even armed with this foreknowledge, after reading "Wild Coast," I longed to fly to Paramaribo, charge into the interior (escorted, ideally, by a couple of bodyguards) and try to see what Gimlette saw.

In 1888 Daimler persuaded Karl Woelfert, a Lutheran minister who longed to fly, to equip an experimental airship with a single-cylinder gasoline engine that developed all of eight horsepower.

A postman falls in love with a raven; their child looks human but longs to fly.

With connecting flights, it takes as long to fly to State College as it does to drive.

We are children of the Sun, and like Icarus, we long to fly back to our origins.

If only Icarus had hung on long enough to fly the Concorde.

The United States used the base, which has the region's longest runway, to fly bombing missions over Afghanistan.

But these 4Gs live up to nine months — long enough to fly to Mexico to mate before sending their babies back north".

After several happy years with this jolly assistant, she asked for a long weekend to fly to Los Angeles to see her scriptwriting boyfriend.