ˈhigh-ˈflying

adjective

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High flying and fast, the F-22 Raptor stealth jet is by far the most lethal fighter America has ever built.

For a high-flying financier gone bad, faking your own death is a tempting escape from legal woes.

In August, the SEC made an example of former high-flying hedge fund manager Philip Falcone.

The once high-flying company, which saw sales fall sharply in 2009, is finding it difficult to mimic its early-stage growth.

Not from high-flying trading or investment banking, but from a boring, stodgy business: lending money to homeowners.

By "high-flying parties" one should doubtless understand those who wish to ascend the higher slopes.

The tumbling habit was gradually bred out of the high-flying birds, and after a time many of them did not tumble at all.

Over autumn woods, in a windy sky, high-flying crows were buffeted and blown about.

The Marshal de Broglio was appointed to their command—a high-flying aristocrat, cool, and capable of every thing.

Not so with poets, orators, and other human professors of the high-flying and cantatory arts.

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