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

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 Baker, Emilie Kip

The Major made no reply, for the word was unwinged.

From The Revolution in Tanner's Lane by Rutherford, Mark

Predatory insects of other orders also attack them, especially when in the unwinged state.

From Argentina from a British Point of View by Various

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 Carlyle, Thomas