How to Use go flying in a Sentence

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• Godfrey said, adding that pieces of the gavels would go flying through the air in the House.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 16 Mar. 2021
• The bricks just go flying and the sound is so satisfying.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
• Watch the actions, always, but, as Marge Piercy wrote, let the words go flying.
  — Mary McNamara Culture Columnist and Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2020
• Carefully cut off and dispose of the puffballs before the seeds go flying.
  — oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2022
• So parents can relax with burgers and beers while the kids go flying overhead.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2021
• Claire Williams' home has been a landing pit for speedy drivers that lose control behind the wheel and go flying into her home.
  — Emmett Jones, Fox News, 3 May 2022
• Steel cords hold shade canvases in place, so there are no pesky umbrellas to go flying off.
  — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• As flinging out my arm and making condiments go flying.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
• Watch out — whoever is slower will see their pieces go flying!
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2022
• Clark’s hands go flying toward Cardano-Hillary’s head and neck area, and now the Indiana guard is falling to the ground and Clark is picking up her third foul and headed to the bench.
  — Stefan Krajisnik, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2021
• The fight for a loose basketball can make for some interesting photographs as bodies go flying around the floor.
  — cleveland, 28 Dec. 2020
• Hash, who wants to become a professional pilot, is grateful for the assistance, and plans on soon meeting up with Yates to go flying.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 6 Apr. 2023
• Stop the planet suddenly, and everything sitting on top of it would go flying eastward.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
• Wearing a plaid long-sleeve shirt and glasses, Drew started jamming causing her neat bun to come undone and red sunglasses to go flying.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
• The tree totters, ornaments go flying, and cats skedaddle in this sing-along picture book for children ages 3 and older and their families.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Colorful lights flash, music booms and people go flying by overhead.
  — Katie V. Jones, baltimoresun.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Russell is eventually seen sweeping props off a desk, causing a person in the corner to cower as objects go flying.
  — Vulture, 5 Oct. 2022
• The wheel then rolled underneath a dark-colored Kia Soul traveling directly next to the truck, causing the second vehicle to go flying several feet into the air.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
• As the polymer sheet trundles through a system of pulleys, the electrodes go flying left and right, forming piles at the base of the machine: one for anodes, the other for cathodes, the negative and positive ends of a battery, respectively.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 2 Nov. 2021
• Our experts particularly like that this organizer has zippers, so all of your most important things won't go flying during a hard stop or a quick turn.
  — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 22 Mar. 2023
• Otherwise, your body parts may go flying in different directions, leaving you and your underwear pieces in a bad situation.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2022
• Dogs shake with a characteristic oscillation, twisting their bodies from side to side at a set frequency to generate so much centripetal force that water droplets go flying.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2012
• Any magnet powerful enough to pull your protons into alignment is going to be powerful enough to make metallic objects go flying in different directions.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024