Sentence examples for ship fly from inspiring English sources

It would be launched from a jet-powered mother ship, fly to the edge of space using a rocket never before used for manned flight, transform into a "shuttlecock" configuration for re-entry and then turn back into a glider to land on a normal runway.

Without a twitch of doubt or fear I found I'd committed myself in writing to deeds of insane derring-do: I would sail to Iceland aboard a container ship, fly to the terrifying volcanic needle of Jan Mayen with the Norwegian Air Force, cross the North Sea in a Viking longboat.

You can get in your ship, fly into space and it's yours to explore.

The ship flew only one flag, the red British ensign.

HIS ship flies a flag that looks suspiciously like the skull and crossbones.

And finally: "This ship flies a Liberian flag – are we visiting Africa?" Probably not.

From a pole on the stern, the ship flew a Chinese-style red flag.

The Iranian national news agency said that revolutionary guards boarded an Iraqi ship flying under a Honduran flag on Saturday.

Last week, pirates attacked the MV Nele Maersk, a container ship flying under the Danish flag about 1,100 miles east of Mogadishu, Somalia.

As well as Casement, the Germans sent 20,000 guns on a ship flying false Norwegian colours; they were never landed.

For the first time in 50 years, a cruise ship flying the American flag will soon be sailing the seas.