Wondering how to use Flies in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as space.
Flies in a sentence
Flies meaning
plural of fly
Synonyms of Flies
Using Flies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of fly
- Useful related words include: space.
- In the example corpus, flies often appears in combinations such as: flies in, flies and, flies over.
Context around Flies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flies
- In this selection, "flies" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, blow, fruit, sacrifice, stick, stay and agriculture stand out and add context to how "flies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bird flies from here and a mosquito flies those systems. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flies" sits close to words such as classrooms, correction and figured, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A plane flies over a wildfire burning near Alcublas, Spain, August 17, 2022. (13 words)
Bluebottle flies, also known as Blow flies, can often be seen hovering around dustbins. (14 words)
A bedraggled union flag flies over houses in Hartlepool on the third anniversary of Brexit. (15 words)
In German folklore and old fairy tales, toads are often depicted sitting on toadstool mushrooms and catching, with their tongues, the flies that are said to be drawn to the Fliegenpilz, a German name for the toadstool, meaning "flies' mushroom". (40 words)
Air Baltic flies from Tallinn Airport to northern European destinations including Copenhagen and Vilnius, but is based in Riga and flies to a much broader range of destinations, including Abu Dhabi, Rome and Madrid, usually on a seasonal basis. (39 words)
And that was a big moment for me to be like, “Wow, time really flies,” because the dynamic we have is so easy and not anxiety-inducing, so time just like ticks by at crazy speeds. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Unlike feces, urine does not attract disease-spreading flies (such as house flies or blow flies ), and it does not contain the most hardy of pathogens, such as parasitic worm eggs.
Fruit flies stick to decaying or fermenting fruits and vegetables while drain flies stay around drains, leaky pipes or sewers.
He flies out to Lyon with Wizz Air and flies back from there to Manchester with Jet2.
After the discovery of three invasive Mediterranean fruit flies, agriculture officials rolled out a quarantine order and will drop sterile male flies from the sky to disrupt the insects’ life cycle.
Air Baltic flies from Tallinn Airport to northern European destinations including Copenhagen and Vilnius, but is based in Riga and flies to a much broader range of destinations, including Abu Dhabi, Rome and Madrid, usually on a seasonal basis.
Bluebottle flies, also known as Blow flies, can often be seen hovering around dustbins.
I mean, if a bird flies from here, a mosquito flies, those systems would capture it.
While we’ll probably never “win” the war on flies, early action and a season-long control strategy can prevent stress, lost performance and disease associated with flies and other external parasites of cattle.
For calculations of OBP before 1954, or where sacrifice flies are not explicitly listed, the number of sacrifice flies should be assumed to be zero.
In German folklore and old fairy tales, toads are often depicted sitting on toadstool mushrooms and catching, with their tongues, the flies that are said to be drawn to the Fliegenpilz, a German name for the toadstool, meaning "flies' mushroom".
More ancient suborders such as the Nematecerans (long-antennaed flies), which for example include crane flies and mosquitoes, exhibit a variety of wing-haltere phasing.
A bedraggled union flag flies over houses in Hartlepool on the third anniversary of Brexit.
A Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Mar 22, 2017.
After being asked to move into a retirement home, he takes his dreams into his own hands and flies his house there using helium balloons.
After two years doing different courses, gaining different experience, meeting people in the industry, one of my colleagues called me to find out if I knew about black soldier flies.
A male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) flies across a gray sky on a snowy morning in North Park, Colorado.
And Munster Joinery and Windows, with a factory on the close-by industrial estate, flies in staff weekly from its base in Ireland.
And that was a big moment for me to be like, “Wow, time really flies,” because the dynamic we have is so easy and not anxiety-inducing, so time just like ticks by at crazy speeds.
A number of experts and nature bodies were contacted for comment about the Traeth Porthor flies.
A plane flies over a wildfire burning near Alcublas, Spain, August 17, 2022.
Common combinations with flies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- flies in 19×
- flies and 16×
- flies over 15×
- flies to 13×
- and flies 11×
- fruit flies 10×
- it flies 10×
- flag flies 8×
- he flies 7×
- the flies 7×