Adjective : a flying insect; an unidentified flying object. ,flying banners; flying hair. ,a flying leap. ,a flying visit; a flying remark. ,They pursued the flying enemy. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : a sail set flying. From Dictionary.com.
I have had a number of "nonflying" assignments but readily volunteered to get back into the cockpit and still want to do it again. From Wordnik.com. [Merritt, Raymond J.] Reference
However, in an interesting, nonflying change of pace, we were driving. From Wordnik.com. [Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports]
But the young man didn't take instruction well and didn't like nonflying chores. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Low Is Flying High] Reference
Tess tried to think of a nonflying analogy about the benefits of risk-taking, but nothing came to mind. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
While the school was trying to find a job for a nonflying pilot, I spent two weeks taking psychological tests. From Wordnik.com. [Chickenhawk]
As a result, the company said, it has changed its record-keeping process related to pilot pay for nonflying time and its tracking of pilot flight and duty time. From Wordnik.com. [Regional Airline Gulfstream Disputes FAA's Findings] Reference
I will try and take you behind the scenes with a distinguished combat veteran, Lt.Col. Gordon Atkinson; and I want to show you something of a most distinguished nonflying lieutenant colonel named Max E. Crandall. From Wordnik.com. [Thud Ridge]
But what Coyne calls the "nonflying feathered dinosaur fossils" - which should have come before. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
" Dainyl smiled broadly as he asked, since he doubted there were more than five anywhere in the east, reserved as they were for nonflying senior officers. From Wordnik.com. [Cadmian's Choice]
It’s a developmental experience, Torbert suggests playing a nonelimination variant of Simon Says called Birds Fly, in which kids try not to get caught flapping their wings when a teacher names a nonflying creature. From Wordnik.com. [FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER] Reference
2) Even ignoring the sonar of toothed whales and the echolocation of oilbirds and swiftlets, there are nonflying land animals that use echolocation: two genera (multiple species) of shrews and the tenrecs. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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