How to Use flyboy in a Sentence

flyboy

noun
  • Oscar Isaac, a movie star in his own right, charms as the reckless flyboy Poe Dameron.
    Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Chaotic camera cuts and shaky-cam strap the viewer into the cockpit with the flyboy.
    Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Enter a cocky 60-year-old flyboy and his rag-tag team of young fighter pilots.
    Frank Pallotta, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The dashing space flyboy with a headstrong streak is still the best X-wing fighter pilot in the Resistance.
    Jen Yamato, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The spirit greets a firefighting pilot who dies and then has to help a fellow flyboy who falls in love with the late dude's girlfriend.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 June 2021
  • Over the next two years, Jonathan Majors will play a cowboy, a flyboy, a boxer and Marvel’s newest supervillain.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021
  • No, there’s no young G.I nicknamed Brooklyn, but there are hotshot flyboys who stick their chewing gum next to a photo of their wives in the cockpit during dogfights.
    Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Kilmer, who recently survived a bout with throat cancer, appears in the new film, but his Admiral Kazansky has left flyboy antics long behind.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 9 May 2022

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