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flyover

Best crossword clue

"Low ceremonial flight"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈflaɪˌəʊvə/Part of speech nounSorted eflorvyStarts with FEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground

Word origin

Deverbal from fly over.

Used in a sentence

  • As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.
  • Boom Town may not be a definitive text—save that for the historians—but it’s a significant update, one that exchanges the dusty pop-cultural clichés of a “flyover” city for the spark of a sincerely enlightening place.
  • If Democrats end up flipping state houses in places Trump won in 2016, they will have proved themselves capable of winning in the places coastal elites derisively refer to as “flyover America.”

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