fly
noun
any of numerous two-winged insects of the order Diptera, especially of the family Muscidae, as the common housefly.
flyable
-
a word derived from
fly.
Example Sentences
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Its air force went to war this year with roughly 265 flyable aircraft, most of them designs that the shah bought before 1979.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Others, such as a second Cobra helicopter painted with a bright orange Bengal tiger by high school students from Camden, aren’t flyable.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2021
My little Cessna was more flyable than some of the planes I’d gotten off the ground as a WASP.
From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2018
The rise of air travel initially sparked questions about where those rights end and flyable space begins.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016
“Elmtree, for repair. Faulty tailplane handwheel. It’s flyable, but you have to hold the control column right forward.”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
