Example sentences for: flown

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

  • Another handpicked group was flown to Washington at the expense of the American Enterprise Institute and given a weekend-long personal briefing on the book's contents by Murray himself (Herrnstein had died very recently), just before publication.

  • Interestingly, bees flying 200 m over water hardly appeared to register an increase in travel distance, whereas the same increase in distance flown over land resulted in a substantial increase in perceived flight distance.

  • Leonardo's "flying machine" would not have flown, but that hardly counts against its visual bravura; one version resembled a calabash shell crossed with a windmill, and another, a four-winged butterfly.

  • Which brings us to the New York Observer . Last Wednesday it broke the story (later reported in the Times too) that, in exchange for a lecture or two, New Yorker writers and editors will be flown to the South Pacific and other idyllic spots for a week's cruise courtesy of an advertiser.

  • "The man, whom they declined to identify, was flown to Washington and put up in a hotel by the lawyers who said he provided a sworn statement about her behavior."


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