Example sentences for: wings

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

  • In an editorial, the Independent said that Blair, a "hawk without wings," has been allowed to become isolated by Clinton "as the US reluctance to commit ground troops has hardened rather than softened and the President has followed the line of least resistance."

  • The two stories further illustrate the unease, even hostility, that blacks have tended to feel about their folklore, and about black history generally: In "That I Had the Wings," Riley, a young black boy Ellison uses in several stories, hates his Aunt Kate and wishes she "had died back in slavery times"; in "Flying Home," the black pilot who seeks escape hates the black farmer who rescued him after his crash.

  • In the big finale, as men and women in tiny swimsuits perform a nearly pornographic water ballet in a giant glass-walled tank, a row of topless showgirls roars onto the stage on Harley Davidsons while lasers trace American Icons--the Statue of Liberty, profiles of Washington and Lincoln, the flag-raising on Iwo Jima--onto the wings of the stage, and a 15-piece pit band plays Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." Greed, liquor, jingoism, bad taste, and utterly compelling entertainment.

  • This is similar to what we have seen with other mutations [ 18 19 ] . That mutations in in and fy cause both independent lateral initiations and the splitting of single laterals during outgrowth was unexpected, as the multiple wing hair phenotype produced by these mutations has been interpreted as an effect only on hair initiation [ 5 ] . This result led us to reexamine in and fy adult wings and indeed we were able to find small numbers of branched hairs.

  • And despite the speaker's many failings, there is no one else with imagination or energy waiting in the GOP wings.


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