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View synonyms for wings

wings

[ wingz ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)
  1. Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
  2. a gold-embroidered green badge in the shape of a spread pair of bird wings worn by junior and cadette Girl Scouts to indicate previous membership in a Brownie troop.


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Example Sentences

Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.

At the same time, the heaviest parts—the main fuselage, the engines and wings—sink to the bottom.

Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.

People scream, the orchestra stops playing, and the stage manager whisks the diva into the wings.

The audience--tout Hollywood--stands to cheer his slow and painful trek from the wings to the table.

Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.

To be sure, he hadn't seen Mrs. Robin go, but he had heard the beat of her wings as she began her flight.

We followed the upland past the end of the Stone till we found a slope that didn't require wings for descent.

And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.

To this the great do not care to lend their ears, and the small have not wings strong enough to fly so far.

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