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Definition of "flies" []

  • Third person singular present 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 "flies" in a sentence
  • "The most important of them, the block system for egg collection and replica plating in flies is my first Drosophila publication, in Drosophila"
  • "If an acronym flies out of your mouth before you can stop it, spell it out, and move on."
  • "So my blood became as fire, and my heart as light as the froth that flies from the surf to the cliff."