How to use "fly" in a sentence

Little bits of stone fly into the air

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism

We're all going to fly over the force field and live happily ever after in a forest where the trees grow gold-covered fruit."

Two years are going to fly past

He had a variety of interests; among other things, he was a skier and a pilot, and he was full of funny stories about learning to ski and fly

On Sunday, when the exhumation was out of the way, maybe he would fly Tina to Arizona or to Los Angeles for the day.

Although he spent more than half his time working in his Las Vegas office, he often had reason to fly to far points at the spur of the moment: Reno, Elko, even out of the state to Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah

During the first year, he'd taken commercial flights or rented the services of a trustworthy private pilot who could fly the conventional twin-engine craft that Alexander's predecessor had managed to pry out of the Network's budget

'Because I have again seen the fly that Mama was looking for.'

'I didn't know your mother was looking for a fly,' I said.

'Where did you see this fly, Henri, and..

'And when did you see this fly for the first time?'

'I think that fly must have died long ago, Henri,' I said, getting up and walking to the door.

There was no fly to be seen anywhere.

I was also afraid that he would look for and find the fly Henri had talked of

'I don't really know, Helene; but the fly you were looking for was in my study this morning.'

'Or your friend the commissaire will have that fly first thing tomorrow morning.'

will you promise to destroy that fly before doing anything else?'

I promised Andre that fly would be destroyed, and I can say nothing until it is.'

'Helene, as soon as the police examine that fly they will know that you are not insane, and then...'

'Francois, no! For Henri's sake! Don't you see? I was expecting that fly

But if you don't, there'll be nothing more I can do, because Commissaire Charas will have the fly.'

There was no fly.

It was just a little later when Henri came running into the room to say that he had caught a funny fly

I took him to the open window and ordered him to release the fly

I knew that Henri had caught the fly because it looked different from other flies, but I also knew that his father hated cruelty to animals and that there would be a fuss if he discovered our son had put a fly in a box or bottle.

Look carefully and try to find a fly which ought to be there, but which I am unable to find

I knew I would not find the fly Andre wanted me to look for

I already knew that the fly Andre wanted was the one which Henri had caught and which I made him release.

'Andre, there is no fly here,' I said, trying to speak calmly

And then I said, 'Henri caught a fly this morning, but I made him release it

During a second experiment yesterday, a fly must have got into the disintegrator'

My only hope is to find that fly and take it through with me again

Andre must be saved! The fly must be found!

I'm going to find that fly

I will never forget that day-long hunt for a fly

I told them a fly had escaped from the Professor's laboratory and that it must be caught alive

They said so to the police later, and that hunt for a fly probably saved me from the guillotine.

Yes, he remembered, he had found the fly by the kitchen window but had released it immediately as ordered.

It is why I wanted the fly

When I went into the disintegrator, my head was only that of a fly

It was then I noticed that he had forgotten to put his right arm, his fly leg - under the hammer

'A fly, I suppose,' he said.

I believe they've built a flying-machine and are learning to fly'

'Yes,' he said, 'fly!'

A lot of bad words fly through the air.

One of the first women to fly was a young woman called Amelia Earhart

Earhart was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

She said later, "When I was two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly."

In 1932, she was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic, which she did in 14 hours and 56 minutes.

She loved to fly alone

In 1935, she was the first person to fly alone the 2,408 miles across the Pacific between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Oakland, California

She was the first person to fly alone from Los Angeles to Mexico City, which she did in 13 hours and 23 minutes

And she was the first person to fly alone without stopping from Mexico City to Newark, USA, which she did in 14 hours and 19 minutes.

She wanted to be the first woman to fly around the world.

Today, Wally Funk has thousands of flight hours, and she has taught over 3,000 students how to fly