Example sentences for: flights

How can you use “flights” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Gleiberman praises Petersen's ability to "seduce you into greater and greater flights of preposterousness."

  • Such a study, if it actually existed, yields significant insight into the thinking of al Qaeda's leaders: (1) they rejected hijackings aimed at gaining the release of imprisoned comrades as too complex, because al Qaeda had no friendly countries in which to land a plane and then negotiate; (2) they considered the bombing of commercial flights in midair-as carried out against Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland- a promising means to inflict massive casualties; and (3) they did not yet consider using hijacked aircraft as weapons against other targets.

  • By 1963, when John Glenn orbited Earth three times in five hours, the Soviet Union was launching daylong flights and a 48-orbit mission.

  • Airlines have even more monopoly power--once you know where and when you want to fly, you are likely to have an extremely limited choice of airlines--and they heavily discriminate against business travelers by charging more for midweek flights than for weekend flights (when most travel is for leisure).

  • , after national airspace was open, more than five hours after the Tampa airport had reopened, and after other flights had arrived at and departed from that airport.


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