WING in a Sentence

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As he spoke, we turned down a narrow lane and passed through a small side-door, which opened into a wing of the great hospital.

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 Meanings and Examples of WING
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wing
 n.  either of the pair of parts that a bird, insect, bat, etc. used to fly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As he spoke, we turned down a narrow lane and passed through a small side-door, which opened into a wing of the great hospital.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  A bird's wing, comrades," he said, "is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  For by some lucky chance a wall had been built continuing the house, it might be with the intention of adding another wing, on the raised ground in the sun.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
4  Six windows on this side of the door, six on that side; a total of twelve in this wing, a total of twelve in the other wing; four-and-twenty carried over to the back wings.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
5  Nothing," said the Jewess; "all about him is black as the wing of the night raven.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  Mellors stood rather tall and thin, worn-looking, gazing with flickering detachment that was something like the dancing of a moth on the wing, at the pictures.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  The manor-house is, as I have already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
8  The bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms being in the central block of the buildings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
9  Now, on the other side of this narrow wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
10  They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
11  There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited at all.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
12  My own was in the same wing as Baskerville's and almost next door to it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
13  One is the scullery-maid, who sleeps in the other wing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
14  Softly we stole along until we had come into the other wing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
15  Right wing three-quarter missing, indispensable to-morrow.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  A lame wing kept the bird from flying, it was in danger when winter was coming.
17  The bird's left wing was hurt.
18  The nearside wing was damaged in the collision.
19  No trace of wings in the air, but I have been over.
20  Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
21  No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
22  Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when your wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
23  If God had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings.
24  The bird flapped its wings and flew away.
25  The bird flapped its wings furiously.
26  A small bird flapped its wings furiously and flew upwards.
27  The wings of the bird still fluttered after it had been shot down.
28  With a rustle of wings the bird landed on the window ledge.
29  Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
30  A white bird fluttered its wings on the grass.