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The hawk has a wingspan of about three feet.
a plane with a 200-foot wingspan
Recent Examples of wingspan from the Web
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Mafall, who had the wingspan of a condor, scaled the back of the bus to tie wheelchairs to the roof.
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Beckett will usually marvel at the wingspan and then look up at me, smiling nervously.
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Four of Duke’s eight rotation players have wingspans longer than 7 feet.
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The towering propellers can stand 300 feet tall and have blades with twice the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
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In preparation for the flight, GE removed six-foot wing extensions from the 747 to reduce the wingspan to just over 195 feet, stiffening the wing to support the weight of the giant engine.
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The 6-foot-9 junior's wide wingspan eats up space near the rim.
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For Fall 2018, there were plenty of models walking in wingspan-style, so-thick-it’s-hard-to-move-one’s-arms looks.
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The rangy Skoglund’s wingspan is so wide the path his arm takes to the plate gets long.
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First Known Use of wingspan
circa 1917
WINGSPAN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of wingspan for English Language Learners
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: the distance from the tip of one wing of a bird or airplane to the tip of the other wing
WINGSPAN Defined for Kids
Definition of wingspan for Students
: the distance from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other wing
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