Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: flights
IPA transcription: [fl'aɪts]
Pronunciations of flights
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Usage examples
  • Robert and Jane tiptoed down the stairs--one flight, two flights.
  • The exhibition opened the next day, but no flights were to be attempted until the day following.
  • Had there been any flights exchanged by the two worlds, surely the scientists of Earth would have known about it.
  • The rabble pressed impetuously upon us, harrassing us with their spears, and overwhelming us with flights of arrows.
  • But he allowed his vehement fervor to carry him into such flights as left the reporters unable to accompany his sentences throughout.
  • At the request of the carnival committee, Mr. Sharp and Tom gave an exhibition of high and long flights the next day, and created no little astonishment by their daring feats.
  • The first picture she saw represented a square in a great city, one side of which was occupied by a splendid marble palace, with great flights of broad steps leading up to the door.
  • In like manner, the beauties and fine thoughts of ancient and obsolete authors are caught up by these flights of predatory writers, and cast forth, again to flourish and bear fruit in a remote and distant tract of time.
  • Even as the last flights of the Gens of Earth were slipping into the icy air from the roof of the world, the Moon-cubes began their terrifying, appalling attack, every detail of which could be seen by Sarka from the Master Beryl.
  • From the swarming streets to the banks of the river, there descended innumerable flights of steps leading to bathing places, while the river itself seemed to force a passage with difficulty through the vast fleets of deeply--burthened ships that far and wide encountered its surface.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording NASA, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Orion (spacecraft), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Virgin Galactic, License CC BY-SA 4.0