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Definition of "flew" []

  • Past tense of fly1. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "flew" in a sentence
  • "Then he can tell his grandchildren how he flew, really _flew_, "just like a bird.""
  • "The label flew the artist to New York for a star-studded 1978 Carnegie Hall concert—after which Cuban-born bandleader Mongo Santamaria took Mr. Sandoval to the Village Vanguard, where he sat in with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis big-band."
  • "Those first three weeks at Redmond had seemed long; but the rest of the term flew by on wings of wind."
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