How to Use fly in a Sentence
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Boles flies out to right field.
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Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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One drone flies right above our heads.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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Why do flags fly at half-staff?
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Cailey Gleeson,
jsonline.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Why do flags fly at half-staff?
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John Tufts,
IndyStar,
5 Nov. 2025
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Alana’s ideas don’t fly all the time.
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Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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And my ideas don’t fly all the time.
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Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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The last three years have flew by quick.
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Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
4 May 2026
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Danielle’s ideas don’t fly all the time.
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Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Artemis 3 won't fly to the moon.
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Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
8 June 2026
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The Aero flights fly twice a week.
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Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2026
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Blue Moon hasn't flown at all yet.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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Why doesn’t the flag fly 24 hours a day?
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Darleene Powells,
Boston Herald,
10 June 2026
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This is a view worth flying for.
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Meaghan Kenny,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Jan. 2026
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The turkey perked up and flew off.
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Emma Allen,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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This season seemed to just fly by.
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Alex Kushel,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2026
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The yellow planes will fly no more.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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Park flies out to the warning track.
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Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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Boles flies out to start the inning.
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Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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The fireworks will fly at dusk.
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Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
25 May 2026
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This is a fly-by-the-seat-of your-pants kind of deal.
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Sarah Blaskovich,
Houston Chronicle,
11 May 2026
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Stewart flies out to left field.
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Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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Then there was the flying killer sheep.
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Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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Koch is the first woman to fly to the moon.
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Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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How to decide whether to drive or fly?
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Keith Laing,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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The team flew home the next morning.
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Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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Park flies out, ending the game.
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Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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There’s so many drones flying around.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
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This is stuff that’s just flying over your head?
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Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
18 May 2026
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In some footage, bats fly just overhead.
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Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Clothes moths barely fly and don’t like the light.
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Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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How painful are black fly bites?
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Alexiah Syrai Olsen,
Sacbee.com,
27 May 2026
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What does a fly farm look like?
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Four live flies flew about the prep area.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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For the path that brought the fly to it, less so.
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Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 June 2026
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About 10 flies were at the bar area.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2026
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Oh, to be one of the six flies on the bar area wall.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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There were about 10 flies in the bar area.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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One fly landed on a meat slicer.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2026
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Max Muncy then drove a deep fly drive to right.
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Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
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Think about how big a swarm 10 flies can seem.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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Robots will switch tasks on the fly.
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Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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Two more flies were in the dining room.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
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Two flies played on a dish storage rack.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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Can my pet fly in the cabin with me?
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Jessie Quinn,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2026
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This time the fly lands just above the spot and floats its way down.
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Ralph Tuttle,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
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But the live flies were the problem.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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What does the payload of flies look like?
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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One fly used a clean plate for the same reason.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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This man competes with flies for scraps of food.
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Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Most of that time was spent learning on the fly.
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Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026
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One fly sat on a speed rack with cooked chicken.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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The air around the mop sink was choked by 20 flies.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Nets have asked him to adapt on the fly, too.
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C.j. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2026
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Five flies were landing on onions.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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Near that drain, seven flies filled the air.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
19 Dec. 2025
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Five flies zipped about the office.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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About six flies hung out elsewhere.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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Also, three flies were in the kitchen.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2026
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Three flies darted around near the back door.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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On the third cast, something hits the fly hard.
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Ralph Tuttle,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
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