Flightless is an English word with synonyms like wingless. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Flightless meaning
- Unable to fly.
- Describing kinds of birds that normally cannot fly, such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu.
Synonyms of Flightless
Flightless vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Flightless
- The main meaning on this page is: Unable to fly. | Describing kinds of birds that normally cannot fly, such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | Unable to fly.
- Useful related words include: wingless.
- Possible Dutch translations are: niet-vliegend.
- In the example corpus, flightless often appears in combinations such as: flightless bird, flightless birds, the flightless.
Context around Flightless
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flightless
- In this selection, "flightless" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, popular, tall, wearing, bird, birds and giants stand out and add context to how "flightless" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a singing flightless perching bird and about these flightless giants. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flightless" sits close to words such as abominable, acolytes and acv, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flightless
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There is much more to learn about these flightless giants. (10 words)
Kiwis are the smallest flightless bird species in the world. (10 words)
The green-coated, monocle-wearing flightless bird is making a comeback from his sunny Metropolis retirement. (16 words)
Moving through the red arch into the Hall of Mammals, with its renovated mural, the first thing visitors will confront will actually be an 8-foot-tall flightless bird, a terror bird or gastornis, which lived about 50 million years ago. (41 words)
Gary Willders said he spotted the emu in his front yard, just outside of Dover, about 1 p.m. Monday, and he watched as the large flightless bird ventured into a neighbor's pasture and spooked some horses. (38 words)
Flightless missions simulate everything that would normally occur at the airport, in DC, etc. So the first “homecoming” is simulated at the venue where the event takes place but the second is at the Legion Post 347. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
A celebrity penguin from the Cotswolds has been crowned the world’s most popular flightless bird after winning a global competition.
Moving through the red arch into the Hall of Mammals, with its renovated mural, the first thing visitors will confront will actually be an 8-foot-tall flightless bird, a terror bird or gastornis, which lived about 50 million years ago.
The green-coated, monocle-wearing flightless bird is making a comeback from his sunny Metropolis retirement.
There is much more to learn about these flightless giants.
Also flightless, the gooselike bird was endemic to the equally isolated island of Rodrigues, which is 350 miles east of Mauritius.
Each iteration of the Penguin has played with changing the reason for his nickname and affinity for the flightless bird.
If you’re asked to name a flightless bird that is fascinating, you should consider the greater rheas.
While New Zealand's remaining flightless birds are no longer being hunted to extinction, threats to their survival still align with human activity.
From the four-foot-tall emperor penguin to the aptly named foot-long little penguin, these unique flightless birds have invaded habitats from Antarctica to the equator, not to mention the hearts of the public.
Gary Willders said he spotted the emu in his front yard, just outside of Dover, about 1 p.m. Monday, and he watched as the large flightless bird ventured into a neighbor's pasture and spooked some horses.
Flightless missions simulate everything that would normally occur at the airport, in DC, etc. So the first “homecoming” is simulated at the venue where the event takes place but the second is at the Legion Post 347.
Goblin Sharks have a lovely singing voice that is sometimes compared to the Buchman's Warbler, the only example of a singing, flightless, perching bird in the world.
Kiwis are the smallest flightless bird species in the world.
The Kiwi bird might be New Zealand’s national emblem, “but few New Zealanders have even seen the usually nocturnal flightless bird,” as reported in an article in the South China Morning Post.
After a brief discussion of freshwater species, it returns to oceanic islands and their peculiarities; for example on some islands roles played by mammals on continents were played by other animals such as flightless birds or reptiles.
As a consequence, they have their own flora and fauna; in particular, they lack many of the land mammals and flightless birds that are common to New Guinea and Australia.
Chocobos are large, often flightless birds that appear in several installments as a means of long-distance travel for characters.
Darwin discusses rudimentary organs, such as the wings of flightless birds and the rudiments of pelvis and leg bones found in some snakes.
Given the fact that ibis (but no dodo-like) bones were found on Réunion and that old descriptions match a flightless sacred ibis quite well, the "Réunion solitaire" hypothesis has been refuted.
In one episode 'Instant Martians' appear, who resemble giant flightless birds, which in another episode are implied to be from Jupiter.
Common combinations with flightless
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- flightless bird 12×
- flightless birds 10×
- the flightless 3×
- and flightless 3×
- unique flightless 2×
- large flightless 2×
- as flightless 2×
- of flightless 2×
- being flightless 2×