wide-winged

• “Lindbergh put the wide-winged amphibian into a shallow glide.”

  The Huffington Post: Helen Davey: Pan Am: A Dream Takes Flight (Part III)

• “Giant bait balls of sardines deckled and thrashed the surface, while hundreds of small terns and a few wide-winged frigate birds swooped over them.”

  Simon & Schuster: Kook

• “Despite some mental disgruntlement from his owl, who had been awakened for the flight, Kuari's appearance and wide-winged, silent landing as Darian declared himself by the title Owl Knight raised a cheer from everyone.”

  Fictionaut: Elephant in the City

• “The first beings I greeted in 2006 were an impossibly wide-winged sooty albatross and a little snowy petrel, who circled and circled and crossed each other.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Whale Warriors

• “On a brilliant autumn day these wide-winged war birds were a sight to see, big and brown against the green shade trees of the surrounding farms.”

  Simon & Schuster: Masters of the Air

• “He doubted that, because even Alcyna had looked away from the Hall as they climbed out, carried southward by the, wide-winged and tireless pteridons.”

  Soarer's Choice

• “There he turned eastward and watched the wide-winged pteridon launch itself, then glide away, dropping lower as it left the higher peaks behind.”

  Alector's Choice

• “Young Frankenstein doll that's FRAHNK-EN-STEEN! so now Dracula has someone to talk to. yeah, i've got a big Dracula doll--complete with wide-winged bat and two cowering rats. what can i say?”

  vampires and hard-boiled private dicks

• “Also, the angle of the flight deck has been changed somewhat, so that even very wide-winged aircraft, F-14s and others with wide wingspans, can take off and land for the very first time simultaneously on the flight deck of this aircraft carrier.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2003

• “Needles of fire spat from the Warbird as Avenger's vulture shape swelled ever larger on the screen—superimposed now with gunnery and targeting data—and the long, lean, wide-winged shape vanished behind expanding globes of incandescent energy before slashing through them with her shields barely affected and delivering not one but a salvo of photon torpedoes straight at Bloodwing.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Romulan Way

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