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How to use the word Winged in a Sentence?

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You’ll be able to hear when you’re close, these cicadas live as nymphs underground for 17 years, and then tunnel up through the ground to the surface where they shed into their winged adult phase, living only 4-6 weeks. Cicada are tastiest in their teneral stage, which is right after they’ve shed into their adult forms, but are still pale while before their exoskeletons have hardened.

Cortni Borgerson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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3 years ago

Rotary winged aircraft are significantly less efficient at generating lift compared to their fixed wing counterparts [so] a viable 100 per cent solar rotary aircraft that can take-off and land vertically remains a major engineering challenge to date.

National University

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5 years ago

Termites swarm in the spring, if there’s a bunch of winged insects flying out of a hole in the woodwork, that’s probably termites. Call a licensed professional pest control company. You’ll save money and trouble in the long run.

Victor Sedinger

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

West Nile virus and Zika virus are just the latest diseases caused by these winged pests.

Victor Sedinger

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

That, in turn, suggests that the two groups of insects share a genetic program for eyespot production, the last common ancestor of these insects lived about 320 million years ago, deep in the Paleozoic. So we think this must be a developmental mechanism that goes all the way back to the origins of winged insects.

Conrad Labandeira

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The [winged bulls] at Mosul were some of the few which remained in their original location where they stood 2,600 years ago, many others that were excavated are now in museums in Baghdad, London, Paris, New York or Chicago.

Christopher Jones

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I was on the tee at Winged Foot, me and a friend of mine, phil got out his driver and was bouncing the ball off the face. Phil looked over to the 17th green and there's a scoreboard. It showed that (Colin) Montgomerie had just double bogeyed the 18th. His whole demeanor changed. But he hits this horrendous slice.

Jim Mahoney

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

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13 years ago

By words the mind is winged.

Aristophanes

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13 years ago

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran

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14 years ago

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake

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14 years ago

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Helen Keller

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14 years ago

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

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14 years ago

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

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14 years ago

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