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Examples

  • I am from Romania and know bad English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Book cheap airline tickets to domestic destinations, cruise packages, hotels, car rentals and vacation packages at flyless.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Getting Closer to Nowhere 2009

  • Today, 38 percent of the underwear it sells is colored, and 15 percent is flyless.

    Guys, Need a Lift? 2007

  • For example, a flyless, odourless improved latrine may be far preferable to a flush toilet and septic tank where the water supply is intermittent.

    Chapter 6 1992

  • For example, a flyless, odourless improved latrine may be far preferable to a flush toilet and septic tank where the water supply is intermittent.

    Chapter 5 1992

  • A solemn-nosed, stern-eyed cow would amble and stamp in his wood to find a flyless shadow; or a strayed sheep would poke its gentle muzzle through leaves.

    Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916

  • And so we have evolved a cool, flyless place for our pans of milk, meats, cooked and uncooked, fresh vegetables, cakes, pastry, etc.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

  • Give him the ideal of cool, flyless cleanliness in a room.

    Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905

  • That night as we lay beneath the stars, flyless once again, we listened to the proprietors sing along to a recording of strange, serene Aboriginal music.

    post-gazette.com - News 2009

  • That night as we lay beneath the stars, flyless once again, we listened to the proprietors sing along to a recording of strange, serene Aboriginal music.

    post-gazette.com - News 2009

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