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Sentence Examples In 1899 they built a little five-foot wingspan biplane kite to test out their control system. Designed with stealth features and shaped like a kite, Pegasus is constructed largely with composite materials. And, of course, it kept catching the wind so it was like trying to move an immense kite! He liked canoeing, climbing and mountaineering, kite buggying, sailing, windsurfing, paragliding and mountain biking. There is a man trying to get a parasail working, it is like a giant kite that he is sitting in. A tenacious lone Black-winged kite hovered over the grassland even as darkness engulfed the hills. Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies. The sport that mixes elements of kite flying, wind surfing and surfing has grown rapidly over the past five years. We left the kite tangled around a chimney pot, as you can just make out in the photo. A solitary chicken hawk circled so slowly on a high updraft of air that he looked to be hanging motionless, a small brown kite. Swanson took up kiting after chancing on a kite festival as he drove through Lauder a decade ago. In making a high-flying kite, it is better to spend a little extra effort on neatness and on cutting down weight than on decorations. The obsession of kite flying can also be seen in competitive kite challenges. We were conspirators, seizing the opportunity to cut the strings from the other's kite! Occasionally, a kite stoops and grabs a dragonfly, one of its favorite meals. Huge flying sculptures by leading kite artists hung in the air alongside tiny creations made by children in on-site workshops. For example, if you use the helium balloon with the light wind kite it will fly in that period between light winds and flat calm. He blew it with a hairdryer, and after about ten minutes, the kite was a hundred percent dry. My brother bought a kite for my niece and nephew and they joined in the fun. The kite is lifted by about 20 boys and is carried briskly around the corner to the waiting truck. Show More Sentences Snowkiting allows you to glide over snow and ice using wind power and a kite. The kite kits they sell have become more extravagant, too, with jar-shaped kites, crab and box kites now on offer. I asked if I could fly one, and the young men of the family good-naturedly let me hold the string of a kite that was already aloft. It shows a kite morphing into a ship that sails from a river to the sea and changes into a magnificent galleon, then back into a kite. Earlier in the week I saw a black kite circling and cruising around the perimeter of the water. On one occasion when he was in remote New South Wales he shot a bronzewing and a black kite swooped to steal his bird. The riders bore broad kite shields for added defence, and struck out with curved scimitars and tridents. There is evidence for both flat and curved kite shields, with the curved being most likely, and most having bosses. Derryn dressed the same as he always had despite going into war, except for the horse he was on and the kite shield strapped around one arm. The data could not be evaluated until after the observation was completed and the kite and meteorograph were brought back to the ground. The advent of airplanes carrying meteorographs hastened the demise of kite observation stations. Then she befriends her family's prisoner, and he shows her that a kite can fly. A traditional Bermuda kite comprises a strung wooden frame, onto which are pasted sheets of brightly coloured tissue paper. With a wing span of up to 5ft and a distinctive long, forked tail, the red kite is a scavenger by nature and akin to a vulture. Back on the promenade, I saw a man and a boy trying to fly a kite down on the beach. In recent years fanfare accompanied the return of species like the osprey and red kite in England and the white-tailed eagle in Scotland. Shaped like a kite, trailing its tail along the sea, Myanmar is the largest country on the Southeast Asian mainland. A number of Matisse's kite tails bear a shape that is ubiquitous in her oeuvre. An agreement has been made with most chains in Scotland for foods which are low in sugar and fat to carry a government kite mark. The 43 lb buggies are also fitted with roll bars to protect the pilot in a crash or from having his neck lacerated by the kite cable. Show More Sentences The sport combines elements of surfing on a board with the added dimension of a kite. Early one morning they drive away from the club, with Annabel high as a kite in the back seat, and crash the car. Judging from his jerky motions and his giddy expression, he is still as high as a kite on adrenaline. So I sat and flew my tiny little kite for a while and watched the much bigger inflatables and other kites fill the sky above. Her parties were in famous for being an opportunity to get drunk out of your mind and as high as a kite. One day I'd be high as a kite, unnaturally happy, but this was always followed by two weeks of staring at my feet. She's clearly high as a kite and in desperate need of medication, but he keeps on filming. They can glide with wings held level, and kite and hover in moderate winds. Later on, as the crowds of business people thin, kite flyers appear, and groups of friends come to sit and drink tea whilst enjoying a game of chess or cards. There was a lot of business of selecting a kite from the stack, attaching the string, making sure the string was correctly wound on the big wooden spools. Despite one close call when it dropped so far that the line briefly got caught in the branches of a tree, I kept the kite airborne for the best part of half an hour. The Squadron hasn't lost a single kite in the last three raids. Initially, they could not figure out if the bird was a kite or an eagle. The White Stripes don't sound so bad when you're high as a kite. After taking a post-gig bow and being cheered from the stage by his adoring public, Elmo unwound in the upstairs bar, still high as a kite following his triumph. Today, his father paid tribute to the hospital staff who saved his life and said he understood why the brave A-level student wants to kite surf again. It was an eye opener for me at the time, this kind of kite flying I think was in relative infancy at the time though still quite technically advanced. Maybe not good enough to fly a kite with my face on it through Central Park, but better. I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. When the winds are strong it is easier to go high on tow, in fact you can kite while on tow, but you are very quickly out of the field as you chase thermals. Show More Sentences Parachute shroud lines are made from cord-like Spectra kite line. On the high walls of the valley, I observed a black kite cruising along. So, you want to build a box kite but you have a limited budget. A dream project of the group is to make a three-dimensional box kite. He fell from a tree while rescuing a kite entangled by a southerly buster. The radio wave power harnesser seems to have been messed up, I myself have used a kite to go out and hooked up the 200 foot red cooper wire to a crystal radio. The thieves got away with six wetsuits, an expensive surfboard, a mountain bike and a mountain board, designed to be towed along beaches by a kite. I follow in hot pursuit and we manage to get the kite off the ground. The red kite is the landscape bird of Scania, and the coat of arms of the municipality of Tomelilla. They are a russety colour, but the most recognisable sign that it is a red kite is that they have a distinct, long forked tail. Despite urbanisation and loss of green cover, Delhi's black kite population has remained intact. Kites were used approximately 2,800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available. Fleetwood is a popular location for kitesurfing and other power kite sports. Among the ever-increasing numbers observed were the velvet scoter, red kite, kingfishers, cuckoos, buzzards and the spotted redshank. A kite balloon is distinct from a kytoon, which obtains a portion of its lift aerodynamically. Species include the golden eagle, Egyptian and griffon vulture, peregrine, red kite, plus a number of non-European species. A kite was a drag, towed under water at any depth up to about 40 fathoms, which upon striking bottom, was upset and rose to the surface. Kayaking, kite surfing, paddle boarding and sailing are available, along with facilities for biking and rock climbing. The purpose of the water kite is to float beneath or beside the ship at a depth sufficient to insure safety. One fellow I knew once was off his game the whole first half because some idiot was flying a kite over the field advertising some one's pills. Show More Sentences A kite surfer is in critical condition after he was hurled 70ft into the air by gusting winds at Aberavon Beach. From the tower rises a red kite, a bird almost extinct elsewhere in Britain but thriving here. One of the best places to see the red kite in Scandinavia is Scania in southern Sweden. Kite-surfing, basically, is strapping yourself to a rather large power kite and a board on your feet. Shaun Partridge, 17, was flying the four metrelong power kite near his home in Ilkeston, Derbys, when a gust of wind took him to rooftop height. On March 21, a power kite landed near the same spot, with its strings draped over the lines. Permits to power kite are likely to cost pounds 35 per year or pounds 5 per day. The kite is often seen along the roadsides and roaming the open colourful patchwork quilt of wheat and rapeseed fields of Scania. A kite making session at 2pm on August 27 and a water rocket making workshop on August 29, at Birkenhead Park. Another widely enjoyed pastime, and once a competitive sport, is kite flying. The event featured races for stand up paddle boarding and kite surfing for junior, female and male competitors. The 13-year-old was kite surfing when he got into serious difficulties off the coast of Rhosneigr, on Anglesey on Saturday afternoon. Birds of prey include the merlin, hen harrier and the red kite, a national symbol of Welsh wildlife. In 1999, the red kite was named 'Bird of the Century' by the British Trust for Ornithology. Another successful reintroduction has been in Northamptonshire, which has become a stronghold for the red kite. According to a report by the Welsh Kite Trust, the UK is the only country in which the red kite population is increasing. World kite surfing champion, Kevin Langeree, has given the thumbs-up to Larnaca's seas which are just right for the sport, he said. There are five different types of boat racing, as well as kite surfing competitions and other beach competitions. Dr Fielding is also adviser to the Irish golden eagle, white-tailed eagle and red kite re-introduction prog rammes. Two firsts for the islands were a black kite and a melodious warbler from southern Europe. Show More Sentences Seemingly out of nowhere, a slim black kite cut through the sky, bee lining for mine. Other activities include sailing, machine rowing, rowing simulator, kayaking, kite surfing and blokart sailing. After treatment with the coating, the kite will snap and crackle like it used to, be clean and perfectly water-repellent. In Edmunds, last week, he was as easy to control as a box kite in a hurricane. Lawrence Hargrave looked far beyond his box kite to see the coming of a new era, one in which man would fly. He is high as a kite on Fair Trade espressos and spitting feathers that Ted Nicholls is apparently having some sort of comeback. Possibly one of the most highly protected birds today is the kite, known by the British Army throughout the world as a shite-hawk. I especially enjoy the scene where he uses a kite as a hang-glider. There are several suitable beaches and training is available at the local kite school. Julia has become quite a good kite pilot. She has learned how to repeatedly buzz her father's head, coming within two feet, and not hitting him. Outside shrouds with hull chainplates support the alloy rig, while up front the retractable prodder deploys for an asymmetric kite. Outside shrouds with hull chainplates supports the alloy rig while up front the retractable prodder deploys for an asymmetric kite. Every rhombus is a kite, and any quadrilateral that is both a kite and parallelogram is a rhombus. However, they also found some quite rare birds including red kite, kingfisher and tree pipit. The three most common shapes in order of size are the standard, the kite, and the smaller pear shape. The author of The kite Runner picks his favorite short story collections. I have been working like a dam mule this morning and just found time to kite you. In general, any quadrilateral with perpendicular diagonals, one of which is a line of symmetry, is a kite. On 6 June 1905 Gabriel Voisin took off and landed on the River Seine with a towed kite glider on floats. Typically each wire acts as a tether to the part of the kite it is attached to. Show More Sentences In the last two decades several kite sailing sports have become popular, such as kite buggying, kite landboarding, kite boating and kite surfing. A guy came to my door selling some weird coupon subscription. I told him to go fly a kite. A kite is an aircraft tethered to a fixed point so that the wind blows over its wings. Other adrenaline junkies include kite surfers, white-water kayakers and unroped climbers. In the 1890s, Lawrence Hargrave conducted research on wing structures and developed a box kite that lifted the weight of a man. This time, the engine roared and the kite rocked against the brakes then sluggishly rolled down the strip. By at least 549 AD paper kites were being flown, as it was recorded in that year a paper kite was used as a message for a rescue mission. More restricted viewing went to Cemlyn's black-headed and grey-headed wagtails, a black kite on Anglesey in June, and a bee-eater over Mold in September. A BAHRAIN-BASED kite surfing team who went up against the region's finest finished first in the final of the second-ever Red Bull Kite The Waj competition yesterday. The red kite was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Falco milvus. The wetland also boasts some 250 species of birds, including the southern screamer, the long-winged harrier, maguari and jabiru storks and the swallow-tailed kite. In May 2012, the International Sailing Federation voted windsurfing out of the list of the Olympic sailing disciplines for the 2016 Games in favour of kite surfing. The top choice was rally driving, followed by water skiing, white water rafting, canoeing, paragliding, snowboarding, surfing or kite surfing and sand boarding. To create a striking kite effect cross over two sails in contrasting but complementary colours or attach them to trellis screens to shelter the patio. Pilots lost at sea used to release the Gibson-Girl box kite. Later, the two apply the principles learned from various experiments to the construction of a complicated box kite that will actually fly and even carry them short distances. In the distance, she saw a box kite soaring high in the sky. Conservationists hope the reintroduction will create a large red kite population in the Lake District and in North West England where the red kite population is low. Prizes will also be given in other categories, including the funniest kite, the most patriotic kite, and the best-looking box kite, to name just a few. Marry, out upon thee, foul kite, that would fain be a tercel gentle. Show More Sentences Wildlife charity the RSPB said the return of the red kite to our skies and the bittern to our reedbeds were the conservation high points of the Noughties. Kites have been used for signaling, for delivery of munitions, and for observation, by lifting an observer above the field of battle, and by using kite aerial photography. They spotted not only common birds like blackbirds, magpies, wrens and robins, but rare breeds including red kite, linnet, tree pipit and ring-necked parakeet. Is it okay for the newborn baby to go kite surfing on my back? Beluga Shipping of Bremen, Germany has already purchased a kite system from a German company called Skysails for the firm's heavy lift cargo vessel designs. The world's first commercial container ship partially powered by a large kite, the Beluga SkySails of Germany, called at Yokohama port Friday and was opened to the media. Rare birds include raven, peregrine, osprey, merlin and the red kite. Bell's coffin was constructed of Beinn Bhreagh pine by his laboratory staff, lined with the same red silk fabric used in his tetrahedral kite experiments. There was not enough wind to windsurf in the area and after reading about kitesurfi ing in a magazine, went out and got his first kite and taught himself how to kitesurf. Another bird species which has had recolonisation attempts is the red kite which, as of 2012, have a population of approximately 90 in the dense forest areas near Grizedale. Kite and paddle boarding Kite boarding, stand-up paddle boarding and beach power kite flying are three activities which can be experienced on the Eyre Peninsula. Several countries find kiting so popular they hold kite events. The next stop will be Namibia, Africa, where the team expects to provide electricity to a small settlement in 2010 with a 1-kilowatt power kite and wind measurement system. The day after initial presentation, the kite was anesthetized by face mask induction with isoflurane in oxygen, intubated, and maintained with isoflurane. Red-tailed hawk depredates Mississippi kite nestling at dawn. Examples from Classical Literature Unlike the black kite, this bird is a great thief, and makes as much havoc among poultry as the red kite. This early machine is described by one authority as something like a cross between a box kite and a Chanute glider. They sing about what a fine mornin' it is in wop and she tells him he'd better fly his kite before Archibald catches him. He may bust my kite, an' steal my marvels, an' he may ca' me ill names, but he Shanna kick Nib. This kite must have four patches to insert its balances through and the slipknot of the kite-string is fixed around both. This 103 machine was a standard of what was called the cellular type because it was composed of cells, like a box kite. At their two sides were two vertical surfaces, giving the tail the appearance of a box kite, so familiar in the Voisin. Perhaps the same thing may be said of other toys, as the kite and the sailing boat. If you could carry the money-box, and him could carry you, then it would be kite easy. After a short but sharp contest, the kite fell suddenly to the earth, not far from Mr. pinder. Those who have kited and driven, tell me that driving disturbs and unsettles the birds far more than the kite. He unlocked the place carelessly, looking over his shoulder at a kite fighting with two nesting crows. Large kites of the ordinary form can be used for the same purpose, but their lifting power is not equal to that of the box kite. This is a most beautiful and graceful kite and combines the box kite and the older varieties. Harold the eagle, tostig the kite, Gurth the ring-dove, and Leofwine the stare. On account of the greater stability and strength of the new kites, the meteorograph is suspended directly from the top kite. Then he again let the kite out, and also the string he had attached to the lower end of the flagstick. Often in the quiet days that followed did Maui amuse himself with the big kite. The box kite looked so unlike any of the kites that they had flown that some wondered whether it would go up in the air. And this time Mary Jane dried her hands and picked up the kite. Show More Sentences With deft fingers she unshipped this, took it with her, reeling out the wire as she went, thus keeping, in a way, in touch with the kite. The man's whole thoughts were absorbed by his wonderful kite, which he was showing off, in order to fascinate her imaginary rival, Mimi. That's critical because heavy line weighs down a kite, making it impossible to fly high. The rudder extended to the front and it also looked like a box kite. In a gale too strong for other kites, a box kite will fly safely. And a Quaker flying a kite is a much more ridiculous object than anybody else. The string of the kite is fastened round these balances by a slipknot. I have sent his name up, on a scrap of paper, to the kite, along the string, when it has been in the sky, among the larks. The kite is held at such a height that the tassel just skims the water. For a few seconds Mimi saw it as it rushed along the sagging line to the kite. It was simply a magnesium light, which had been fired by the mechanism within the box and carried up to the kite. Anton took a foot rule from his pocket and measured the kite rapidly. The sea anchor was bridled something like a kite, so that it bit into the water as a kite bites into the air, but with a difference. And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind. Susan say to me one day, kite yell, I amember, ickle Bardie made of money! No kite ever pursued its quarry with a keener eye than we did. Great was Maui's surprise and consternation when he found his kite gone. Captain Dan got a kite up a little better than I had hoped for. Where a wolf will kite off and keep on kiting, a dog will plan. The one of a kind park is home to diverse wildlife including the bald eagle, swallow-tailed kite and many wading birds. Show More Sentences Find the mid-point of the two sections of each dowel and cut a small slit into the kite, large enough to pull string through it. They made a vast kite, which they caused to be flown over the centre spot of the incursion. I suppose the others are torn up to rig ships, bandage cut fingers, or make kite tails. Even the most experienced kite fisherman occasionally dunks a kite, and now and then a strut, string or crosspiece breaks. It was like watching a faded and deluded ex-footballer uninvitedly turn out for a first team still wearing his tight 80s shorts and figure hugging top over his beer kite. He had a vague idea that with such a force as the great kite straining at its leash, this might be used to lift to the altitude of the kite itself heavier articles. Then we organized, and they busted our union higher'n a kite. Find more words! 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