flies English

Meaning flies meaning

What does flies mean?

flies

— noun (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

Synonyms flies synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as flies?

flies English » English

fly

mosquitoes

upper part of stage

two winged flies

true flies

gnats

fly loft

fly gallery

fly floor

bees

Diptera

Topics flies topics

What do people use flies to talk about?

States Quantity Plural

Many, much

• What words indicate that many people are doing something?
  in large numbers in droves in force in strength thick and fast be dying like flies be dropping like flies

Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move straight without turning

• What words refer to moving straight?
  go straight in a straight line direct as the crow flies

States Big

Distance

• What words refer to the distance between two things?
  distance how far span as the crow flies

Examples flies examples

How do I use flies in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Time flies.

The eagle does not catch flies.

A swallow flies very swiftly.

The airplane flies at a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour.

Superman flies as fast as a rocket.

This plane flies nonstop to Tokyo.

This plane flies between Osaka and Hakodate.

How time flies!

We often hear it said that time flies.

Time flies like an arrow.

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

There are some flies on the wall.

Flies and mosquitoes interfered with his meditation.

The new airplane flies at twice the speed of sound.

Movie subtitles

Stick of spearmint gum with flies all over it.

The witch no longer flies away on her broom over the rooftops.

He probably wants his flies again!

Flies ain't good enough?

Flies?

Who wants to eat flies?

You're no longer happy with flies.

Tiny wretched flies!

Tell me, Mr. Renfield, what makes you eat flies?

The wings of flies, sir, represent the aerial power of the psychic faculties.

And when I behave nicely, he gives me a bit of sugar so that I can catch flies.

WITH OUR MEN BEING KILLED OFF LIKE FLIES THERE ISN'T TIME TO DIG TRENCHES.

He shook those men off that log like they were flies.

You know how time flies.

Let's leave for Africa, for the Regency of Algiers over which the French flag now flies.

I know. It's the flies.

When we came here, there was nothing but desert, swamps, flies and dwarf palms.

People are dropping like flies from hunger and cholera.

Flies? Flies?

They're the flies on the wall of the school, the unpopular kids.

How time flies. and we haven't even done anything yet, my love.

How time flies. That.

Men spread out like flies, clinging to the rigging, screaming at the surf.

How time flies!

See, Joe, we had all the screens removed because they were fixed so the flies can't get out at all.

Uh, why, he flies just like a eagle.

Just a couple of flies, a sip of milk and perhaps a pigeon's egg on Sundays.

I always wondered how flies could walk on walls. now I understand.

Flies won't ever impress me again.

You and I will never see flies again anyway.

But they're little flies, sir.

News and current affairs

This flies in the face of conventional thinking, which continues to claim that mandating carbon reductions - through cap-and-trade or a carbon tax - is the only way to combat climate change.

The ICC is like a cobweb: small flies get stuck, but wasps and hornets get through.

DDT is the most cost-effective agent ever produced for the control of diseases spread by flies and mosquitoes.

Nonetheless, a frank assessment would acknowledge that this spider has so far caught few flies.

We freely admit to not knowing everything about how a helicopter flies or a printing press prints, but we are not nearly modest enough about our ignorance.

South Vietnam's flag of yellow with three red horizontal stripes often flies side-by-side with the Star-Spangled banner.

Even more recently, scientists at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego have shown that according to all essential definitional criteria, fruit flies sleep at night.

The importance of genetic context has been shown in studies of behavioral mutants in fruit flies and mice.

But this flies in the face of most evidence.

Third, the Books of Life for humans, fish, flies, and yeast contain a large number of shared words (although the spellings are somewhat different).

Yet so many women die like flies, in pools of blood and deep-rooted indifference.

Aging general secretaries were dropping like flies.

He's an outsourced human-resources executive who flies around the country firing people on behalf of timid managers; she's a counterpart female road warrior.

The innumerable blasts and attacks all across the country, the killing of Benazir Bhutto, and the routine television images of splatters of blood covered with flies have wrecked their nerves.