Examples of flown in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Though the company has re-flown boosters and spacecraft dozens of times on satellite and cargo launches over the past several years, this will mark the first time the company will reuse hardware for a crewed mission. — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 22 Apr. 2021 Though the company has re-flown boosters and spacecraft dozens of times on satellite and cargo launches, this will mark the first time the company will reuse hardware for a crewed mission. — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021 Ten years ago: After a trip to the International Space Station, shuttle Discovery ended its career as the most flown U.S. spaceship, returning from orbit for the last time. — Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2021 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 On board the spacecraft are two of NASA’s most experienced space travelers, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, both former military pilots who previously had each flown two missions on the space shuttle. — Christian Davenport, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2020 Now this South Korean man is about to be deported A South Korean man flown to the U.S. 37 years ago and adopted by an American couple at age 3 has been ordered deported back to a country that is completely alien to him. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020 The two were deemed uninjured and flown to Aniak after the rescue. — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2020 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

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