How to Use flight in a Sentence

flight

noun
  • During the flight home to Newark on Jan. 6, Romey wasn’t fussy at all.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • What was the process behind filming Tarak’s flight of the Bennu?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Learn more about Breeze's flight offerings via our site or the app.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Authorities put him on a flight back to Iran the next day.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Some lucky passengers are about to find out on this Delta flight.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Then Traylor was on a flight to Paris to spend Thanksgiving with friends.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Now, direct flights from DFW to the resort town are available.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Criswell said aboard the flight that power is being restored and the roads are all open in the area where Biden was going.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The cap displays the mythical red bird in flight above the desert landscape through which the Huachichil wandered.
    Shivani Vora, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • China agreed to open more flights and routes to Nepal, including Pokhara.
    Claire Fu, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Males fly together in courtship flights and preen and display for the females.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The staffing shortages triggered long lines and flight delays.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The site's staff recommends booking flights now for the best airfares.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • How far this will take you depends on current flight and hotel room prices.
    Emily Sherman, wsj.com, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Given its design, we have been informed that the TSA may not allow the medals to be carried on flights.
    Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The flight was canceled and the 95 passengers were rebooked on other flights.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The Sirius jets could well set a new industry standard in terms of flight distance and speeds.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
  • For the teen, that was cheaper than booking a flight directly to Charlotte.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • My flight would not prove to be a pleasure or an adventure, but the experience on the ground was both.
    Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
  • This is where Joby set up testing for tethered flights of the early scale models.
    Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
  • All of this—the FPV drones, the long-range bombers, the flight simulators—is Ukrainian innovation at work.
    Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • Presumably, the option will be offered for flights that are far from fully booked.
    Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Yet some customers complained that Delta canceled their flights but would not give them refunds.
    Kelly Yamanouchi, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • But the flight operates both ways across the Atlantic, and is bringing plenty of Europeans to Cleveland, some for the very first time.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 17 July 2023
  • After Wilbur's final flight, the plane caught a gust of wind, rolled over and suffered irreparable damage.
    Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Spirit Airlines is making the weekend a bit sweeter with a 2-day sale that has one-way flights starting as low as just $43.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Services such as flights and freight could become more expensive since those include the use of fuel.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
  • According to police, two women were bringing children down a flight of stairs at the complex when one of the women dropped a cell phone.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Some airlines even used the eclipse as a selling point, offering flights along the path of totality.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2024
  • MacDonald was eventually restrained with flex cuffs, and the flight, with 160 people on board, was diverted to Bangor, Maine.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 1 May 2024

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