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fly by

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  1. pass by while flying
    An enemy plane flew by
  2. move by very quickly

How To Use fly by In A Sentence

  • He had no time to spare and couldn't afford to fly by the target.
  • Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen. Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
  • The honors, determined chiefly by the marks given at the end of the term, being mainly the reward of a diligence rather stupid than otherwise, as a rule were regarded with great indifference, and, for the most part, fell to the men who "poled" most assiduously, and got the best marks for attention, diligence, and correct recitation of the set tasks. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
  • He remarks at Memphis how the unburnt brick of which the mounds are made up had in many places become remanie into a stratified deposit -- distinguishable from Nile mud chiefly by the pottery fragments -- and notes the bearing of this fact on the Cairo mounds. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
  • If this burn does not take place successfully, Cassini-Huygens will fly by Saturn, never to return.
  • Dressing a fly by winding the hackle the length of the body is mentioned in fly fishing books of the fifteenth century. It is called the palmer style of dressing.
  • Speech and speech-reading are taught where the measure of success seems likely to justify the labor expended, and in most of the schools some of the pupils are taught wholly or chiefly by the Oral Method or the The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
  • In the majority of clonal plant species, which reproduce chiefly by vegetative propagation, seedling recruitment is infrequent.
  • Five and a half hours fly by. Times, Sunday Times
  • Birds learn to fly by instinct.
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