will have flown
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future perfectof fly.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
flynounany of numerous two-winged insects of the order Diptera, especially of the family Muscidae, as the common housefly.
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“The audience didn’t know what was gonna happen. When I got to the part where I sang, ‘Oh, my wild, beautiful bird, you will have flown ...’
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023
“At the current rate, by this fall, our pilots will have flown more overtime in 2022 than in the entirety of 2018 and 2019 combined, our busiest years to date.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Virgin Galactic’s plane, known as SpaceShipTwo Unity, has reached space on three occasions, and this would be the first time it will have flown a crew of four.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2021
He said: "This bird will have flown close to one million miles, raised any number of chicks, survived predators and storms and still looks in brilliant shape."
From Children's BBC ● Sep. 21, 2010
These were the sentiments affixed below: When riches will have flown will honours then avail?
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly