Sentence examples for powerful flight from inspiring English sources

Once controlled flight had evolved, the avian body plan was transformed into a powerful flight engine.

As you know if you've ever cut up a chicken, living birds (except for flightless birds like the ostrich and kiwi) have a keeled sternum to which the large, powerful flight muscles attach.

Although descended from the dinosaurs, birds have evolved remarkable specializations for flight: a unique "one-way" breathing system, light yet strong hollow bones, a skeleton in which many bones are fused or lost, powerful flight muscles, and -- most importantly -- feathers.

I did dislike it that they drove away the smaller birds — a pair of cardinals, for example, who nested in the back yard, and didn't have the range of these ravenous black birds who would be off as quickly as they had come, in powerful flight to the next block or the next town.

Notable too were Ang Lee's sumptuous 3-D spectacular Life of Pi, adapted from the 2001 novel by Yann Martel about an Indian boy cast adrift on a boat with a Bengal tiger; The Impossible, Juan Antonio Bayona's harrowingly realistic drama about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; and Robert Zemeckis's powerful Flight, with Denzel Washington as a tormented airline pilot.

I did dislike it that they drove away the smaller birds a pair of cardinals, for example, who nested in the back yard, and didn't have the range of these ravenous black birds who would be off as quickly as they had come, in powerful flight to the next block or the next town.

Females will show this type of powerful, explosive flight much more rarely than do males (perhaps only to escape from predator attacks) and they have very different flight patterns altogether.

Hill-Stone Inc. of New York City offers old master prints and drawings, among them Rembrandt's powerful engraving "Flight Into Egypt" (1654), reworked by the artist from a plate made by the Dutch landscape painter and etcher Hercules Seghers, and a lovely chalk drawing (1745) of a young woman's head, attributed to the 18th-century French painter Francois Boucher.

The common tern has a larger head, thicker neck, longer legs, and more triangular and stiffer wings than its relative, and has a more powerful, direct flight.

As a 1958 issue of Popular Science explained, these papers could contain clues to "H-power, interplanetary flight, more powerful batteries, longer-wearing tires".

On the wing, it displays a relatively slow but powerful and sustained flight.