kiting
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Origin of kiting
Example Sentences
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Moore had been right about the sport-kite business: he soon opened six stores in Missouri and Kansas, advertising in Stunt Kite Quarterly and other new publications devoted to the sport of kiting.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 13, 2019
Kite clubs around Seattle and Whidbey Island can help you get involved in group events — or check our list of top kiting spots and go solo.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2016
In the early 1990’s, Bankers Trust Company suspected that Madoff and a friend of his named Norman Levy had been kiting checks.
From Forbes • Sep. 26, 2014
But otherwise he consistently skirts the sublime, whether in the oceanic washes of Open Up Your Door, Tonight the Streets Are Ours' breezy hula, or hallucinogenic kiting tune Don't Stare At The Sun.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2013
They could have sat on the beach and hove up stones or drift-wood and killed 'em as they went kiting by, sixty miles or more an hour to the east'ard.
From Sonnie-Boy's People by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)
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