Example sentences for: kite

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

  • At hung higher than Gilderoy's kite the author glosses kite as `body'; it is actually a word for `belly.

  • I was baffled for quite a long time by a conversation on a bus, in which someone announced that because the cool autumn weather had arrived they were going to buy a kite .

  • Kite flying.

  • Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.

  • Thus, kite was aptly made from Old English cáta `hawk,' since a kit hovers in the air in the manner of a hawk.


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