unwinged
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a word derived from
winged.
Example Sentences
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The falling, cutout black figure of Icarus looks as if it might have been snipped out by a child, until the onlooker comes to sense the impotent hooked flapping of the unwinged arms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In this manner, amid wild October weather, they a wild unwinged stork-flight, through the astonished country, wend their way.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Such were his words; unwinged, they rested with her.
From The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) by Various
It resembles no insect, winged or unwinged, which the fish can have seen.
From Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools by Emilie Kip Baker
This path struck over hill and down dale in a somewhat dogged and straightforward manner, scorning to go round hillocks, save when too precipitous for unwinged animals.
From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Francis B. Pearson