WINGS in a Sentence

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For WINGS, below is one of 263 sentences:
When a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.

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 Meanings and Examples of WINGS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wings
 n.  the side of military or naval formation
 n.  a unit of military aircraft
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The clumps of trees in the snow seemed to draw together in ruffled lumps, like birds with their heads under their wings; and the sky, as it paled, rose higher, leaving the earth more alone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  But she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening her dimple and fluttering her bristly black lashes as swiftly as butterflies' wings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  With that kiss, everything she had intended to say in welcome took wings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  And if he'd kept on standing there, Sherman would have flanked him and crushed him between the two wings of his army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  It was white and strained and the black brows above slanting green eyes swooped up startlingly against the white skin like frightened bird's wings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  Above their heads a flock of chimney swallows whirled suddenly on swift wings and now and then a rabbit scurried startled across the road, his white tail bobbing like an eiderdown powder puff.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  They're like fish out of water or cats with wings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
8  At the thought her spirits began to rise: it was characteristic of her that one trifling piece of good fortune should give wings to all her hopes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
9  As to the nature of Selden's growing kindness, Gerty would no more have dared to define it than she would have tried to learn a butterfly's colours by knocking the dust from its wings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
10  Yet Selden's manner at the Brys' had brought the flutter of wings so close that they seemed to be beating in her own heart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
11  It was at this point, perhaps, that a joy just trying its wings in Gerty's heart dropped to earth and lay still.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  The expanse was relieved by clumps of oaks with patches of short wild grass; and every mile or two was a chain of cobalt slews, with the flicker of blackbirds' wings across them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cotton-woods.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  She darted into the women's dressing-room, roused Maud Dyer from her fainting panic, pushed her to the wings, and ordered the curtain up.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  In her tranquillity she let the words blow by and heeded only the beating wings of his voice.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  Birds can fly with their wings.
17  A bird's wings enable it to fly.
18  Birds' wings enable them to fly.
19  The wings of the plane have iced up and it is too dangerous to fly.
20  Misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot.
21  Speak of angels and you will hear their wings.
22  Talk of an angel and you'll hear his wings.
23  The two wings of the aircraft broke off on impact.
24  Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings.
25  There are no trails of the wings in the sky, while the birds has flied away.
26  The diverse patterns formed by their brightly colored wings have made butterfly watching a fairly popular hobby.
27  Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.
28  We saw the hawk fold its wings.
29  When a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.
30  To claim that, because houses and birds both have wings, both can fly, is extremely specious reasoning.