Example Sentences

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While they have been cryogenically frozen during the two-year flight, David has been gliding about like a head waiter keeping everything on board shipshape.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2012

And I know that the bluejay, which has been gliding after me curiously the last ten minutes,—has fathomed my intentions and flown ahead to alarm the deer, which are now bounding away for denser cover.

From Secret of the Woods by Long, William Joseph

The boat has been gliding along stem first, and I have been confused and looking at the farther shore, seeing nothing but the faint twinkle of the fire-flies.”

From Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris by Spurrier, Steven

Gradually, however, it has been gliding westward for the last three centuries and more.

From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown