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[ verb ] pass by while flying

Examples

"An enemy plane flew by"

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film_clip of Bix_Beiderbecke , but this view of the great trumpeter flew_by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted_out the entire glimpse .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy 's eye again the great fieldstone house which , built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor , had been Izaak 's bride-gift to his cousin wife as the last century ended .

Related terms

travel_by

2
[ verb ] move by very quickly

Synonyms

whisk_by zip_by

Related terms

travel_by

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