How to Use flown in a Sentence

flown

adjective

• The first and last pages of the flown Apollo 11 Flight Plan are also up for auction.
  — Fox News, 13 July 2019
• The two were deemed uninjured and flown to Aniak after the rescue.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2020
• That means Kidman needs over a dozen high-fashion looks flown to the French Riviera that meet the star’s unrivaled red-carpet record.
  — vanityfair.com, 19 May 2017
• Abbey was brain dead and flown to Florida a few days later where she was taken off life support.
  — Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2017
• Conner was brain dead and flown to Florida a few days later where she was taken off life support.
  — Raquel Rutledge, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• In October, the H2H team was flown to Kenya to meet with government officials to discuss scaling the impact up.
  — Jonathan Winslow, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2017
• Hochschild’s book shows us what a radical movement looked like from the inside, with all of its high-flown idealism and personal intrigues.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• But few wanted to hear the stories of some former Dallas car salesman who’d flown slow, primitive airplanes in a war a half century earlier.
  — Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 14 Oct. 2017
• No other Muslim author, let alone one writing in high-flown classical Arabic, has had comparable influence on thinkers and scholars in both the Islamic world and the West.
  — Eric Ormsby, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• Butler’s opening speech was full of high-flown rhetoric, praising the Founding Fathers for their wisdom in creating the possibility of impeachment.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
• The 30-minute comedy—more like 22 minutes, with commercials—is an art in itself, but its status has seemed iffy in the wake of bingeable series of hour-long installments, high-end casts, high-flown themes and highly untraditional decency standards.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2020
• Similarly, the high-flown words of party leaders were quickly and loudly drowned out Wednesday by partisans grasping for tactical advantage.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
• There’s also plenty of high-flown debate about technology, freedom and inequality.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
• When high-flown sophistication meets grounded simplicity?
  — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 15 May 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024