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  • noun Plural form of vee.

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Examples

  • Great vees of geese, herons, loons, and ducks winged overhead on their way south.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Great vees of geese, herons, loons, and ducks winged overhead on their way south.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • A flight of geese were winging overhead in long vees; their honking, mixed with the rasping of several hundred wings, brought me out of my dream.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • A flight of geese were winging overhead in long vees; their honking, mixed with the rasping of several hundred wings, brought me out of my dream.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • The breeze bent the corn along the tops of the stalks, and jackrabbits sat in the short grass by the side of the road with their ears turned up in vees.

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

  • You mean they had a couple hundred gallons to spare, what with the helicopters and hum-vees all over the place, just so Ed could toule around town in his Nova?

    Bloggin about Jericho, instead of writing. D'oh! wendigomountain 2008

  • Afghanistan presents a clear and present danger -- as these two up-armored Hump-vees show (ok, one has a stick shield; the other a driver with a stick).

    Jesus Broke Bread--We Bomb Bread Makers. 2009

  • Then when I use the keyboard, the aitch oftentimes become jays while the vees bees.

    Handwritten « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts 2008

  • Neli uurijat laskus sukeldumisaparaadiga planeedi ookeani ning nüüd vedeleb selle neliku juht üksinda vees...

    Valentina Kutsenko «Океан» Ulmeguru 2008

  • One of the Canadian guys in our complex is the gardener for all of us, and he just started planting a few orchids in the vees of some of the trees, anchoring the soil with wire.

    Gardening in San Miguel 2005

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