Sentence examples for powers of flight from inspiring English sources

The main features of falconiforms include the hooked "raptorial" bill; the basal cere, or bare skin, covering the nostrils; the powerful feet with hooked claws; sustained powers of flight and carnivorous habits; and the difference in size between the sexes.

Many are notably graceful in form and movement, and some have spectacular powers of flight.

By 45 million years ago (the Eocene Epoch), bats with fully developed powers of flight had evolved.

Dragonflies have unique powers of flight and can hover or fly in all directions, covering up to 10 metres in a second.

In the United States the red bat (Lasiurus borealis), the large hoary bat (L. cinereus), and the silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans)—three species that roost primarily in trees and shrubs are true migrants with strong powers of flight.

The remainder of the novel (another 200 pages) is a ragbag of satirical set-pieces, flashbacks and a ruinously unconvincing subplot involving a magic ring that confers powers of flight and invisibility.

Some birds have completely lost the power of flight during the course of evolution.

They possess the power of flight and are described as mounting upward with a fluttering motion.

They are the only mammal that has proper power of flight.

The power of flight put birds into a new evolutionary niche, and more novel adaptations followed.

Hesperornis was up to 1.8 metres (6 feet) long and had completely lost the power of flight.